Scientific Focus Area
Hanse History, Economic History, Textile History, Urban History, Medieval History, Historiography
Academic Career
2002-2009
Studies at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, with the major subjects History and Philosophy
Master’s Thesis in History on Late Medieval Hanseatic Law
2010-2013
PhD Fellow at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
PhD Thesis on Hanseatic Textile Production in Late Medieval Long Distance Trade
2013-2014
Research Officer at The London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Responsible for archival research and data collection/ analysis in the research project "Integration and Growth: Capital and Grain Markets in Central Europe, 14th to 18th centuries"
2015-2017
Postdoctoral Researcher at the SAXO Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Funded by The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF), Awarded with a Sapere Aude Research Talent Grant
Project Title: "Coping with Commercialization in Medieval Commodity Trade. The Emergence of Municipal Institutions of Quality Assessment in Northern European Production and Trade"
since 2017
Leader of the Research Centre for Hanse and Baltic History (FGHO) at the European Hansemuseum Lübeck gGmbH
Positions
- Member of the Board of the Gesellschaft für Schleswig-Holsteinische Geschichte (since 2021)
- Management Committee Member and Digital Atlas Manager of the COST Action CA19131 Europe Through Textiles: Network for an Integrated and Interdisciplinary Humanities (2020-2024)
- Member of the Board of the Hanseatic History Society (since 2020)
- Member of the Editiorial Board of the Historical Research, the journal of the Institute of Historical Research (since 2020)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Society for the History of Schleswig-Holstein (since 2020)
- Founding member of the Friends Association of the Working Group for Late Medieval Economic History (since 2017)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Hanseatic History Society, the Hansische Geschichtsblätter (since 2017)
- Member of the Association for the History and Archaeology of Lübeck (since 2017)
- Member of the Committee for Eastern and Western Prussian Regional History (since 2016)
- Member of the DFG funded Research Network on Late Medieval Economic History Kalkulieren, Handeln, Wahrnehmen. Für eine neue Methodik der spätmittelalterlichen Wirtschaftsgeschichte (2016-2018)
- Member of the Society of Historians in Germany (since 2014)
- Member of the Working Group for Late Medieval Economic History (since 2013)
- Member of the Hanseatic History Society (since 2005)