• 1994-1999 Studied modern history, auxiliary sciences of history as well as history and culture of the Near East as the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
• 1999 M.A. University of Munich.
• 1999-2000 Research associate at the University of Munich, department history, institute of early modern history, chair of Prof. Dr. Win­fried Schulze.
• 2001-2004 Research associate at the collaborative research center 573 "Pluralization and Authority", University of Munich.
• 2004 Ph.D. University of Munich.
• 2004-2009 Taught early modern history at the University of Stuttgart, department of history, chair of Prof. Dr. Joachim Bahlcke.
• Various research stays in London and Oxford, Emden, Halle and Wolfenbüttel.
• 2009-2015 Junior professor for European Cultures of Knowledge at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt.
• 2013/14 (winter semester) substitute professor of modern history I / early modern period at the Ruhr University Bochum
• 2015 Habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification) in early modern, modern, and European history, University of Stuttgart.
• Since August 2015 at the Friedrich-Meinecke Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin.

European history of the early modern period.

Cultural history of early modern Europe

with a focus on:

• Migration and mobility
• Religious history 
• Cultural transfers and interactions (central and western Europe, Ottoman Empire)
• History of knowledge
• History of resource management

Current research interests and book projects

• German Protestants and Great Britain, 1688-1740, prepress.
• Captivity narratives in the early modern period
• Migration in early modern Europe
• Early modern Protestantism
• Pietism in international and interconfessional relations
• Protestants and the "Orient"
• Water resource management and early modern knowledge cultures

Here you can find a list of publications.