2001 – 2004    

Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London - Bachelor of Arts in the history of art.

2004 – 2005   

Warburg Institute, University of London - Master of Arts in ‚Cultural and Intellectual History 1300-1650.’ Dissertation on Oriental fables in medieval France: Raymond de Béziers’ Liber de Dina et Calila (Paris, BNF, MS Latin 8504). 

2006 – 2007   

Université Lyon II - Master 2 in comparative history of medieval Islamic and Christian societies. Dissertation on ‚holy fools’ in Sufi and Franciscan hagiography in the 13th c.  

2008 – 2012    

DFG Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group ‚Kosmos/Ornatus’, Freie Universität Berlin - Research position. Doctoral dissertation on Arabic inscriptions on the garments of the Norman kings of Sicily.

Spring 2011 

Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence - Research scholarship.

2012 – present

Collaborative Research Centre 980 Episteme in Motion, Project ‚Objects of Transfer’, Freie Universität/Museum of Islamic Art Berlin - PostDoc position as researcher and scientific coordinator.