Since 2020/21
Professor of Everyday Media and Digital Cultures at the Institute for Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Since 2018
Co-director of the research group "Attention Strategies of Video Activism on the Social Web"; funded until 2021 by the Volkswagen Foundation
2018-2019
Visiting professor for media philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna
2016-2018
Co-director of the research group "Bewegungsbilder 2.0: Videoactivism between Social Media and Social Movements"; FU Berlin, Uni Bonn, Filmuni Babelsberg; funded by: VolkswagenStiftung
2017-2018
Guest of the director at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Linz University of Art in Vienna
2016-2017
Visiting professor for media theories at the Linz University of Art (substitute professorship and head of department)
2016-2017
Research Fellow at the IFK in Vienna (position was never taken up)
2015-2016
Part-time lecturer for media theory at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna
2011-2019
Research Associate at the Seminar for Film Studies, FU Berlin
2009-2014
Research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 626 "Aesthetic Experience in the sign of the Dissolution of Artistic Boundaries", Subproject B3 "On Illusion and Fiction in Film Aesthetics"; Subproject "On the Perspective Dissolution in Experimental Film and Post-Cinema", FU Berlin
2009
Guest Researcher at the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies
2008
Visiting Scholar at the Pratt Institute, New York City
2006-2009
Doctoral scholarship at the International Research Training Group "InterArt", FU Berlin
2006
PhD scholarship at the Research Training Group "Image - Body - Medium. An Anthropological Perspective", Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (position was never taken up)
2005-2006
Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Martin Seel, Institute for Philosophy, Uni Frankfurt a.M.
2004-2006
Student assistant at the Research Training Group "Time Experience and Aesthetic Perception", Uni Frankfurt a.M.
2003-2004
Student research fellowship at the Research Training Group "Time Experience and Aesthetic Perception", Uni Frankfurt a.M.
2000-2006
Study scholarship of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
2003
Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Axel Honneth and Prof. Dr. Gary Gutting, Institute of Philosophy, Uni Frankfurt a.M.
2001
Student assistant at the academic senate of the University of Frankfurt a.M.
Stays abroad
2017-2018
Guest of the director at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Linz University of Art in Vienna
2009
Guest Researcher at the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies
2008
Visiting Scholar at the Pratt Institute, New York City
Awards
2014
Karsten Witte Prize of the Society for Media Studies (GfM) for the best film studies essay of the year
Positions in scientific societies
2015-2018
Founding spokesperson of the Commission for Good Work in Science at the Executive Board of the Society for Media Studies (GfM)
2016-2018
Spokesperson of the working group on political theory and media studies (GfM)
Since 2015
Expert reviewer and trusted lecturer of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for the field of art, cultural and media studies
Since 2014
Co-editor of Montage AV: Journal for Theory and History of Audiovisual Communication
Memberships
Since 2013
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Since 2011
Society for Media Studies (GfM):
- Since 2015 Commission for Good Work in Science
- Since 2015 AG Gender/Queer Studies and Media Science
- Since 2014 AG Data and Networks
- Since 2013 AG Film Studies
- Since 2012 AG Political Theory and Media Studies
Since 2008
Network for European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)