About

since 2023 Officer for online communication and task-related public relations at open_in_new Saxony-Anhalt State Institute for School Quality and Teachers’ Qualification (LISA) and Editor-in-Chief of the open_in_new Saxony-Anhalt Education Server
2014 – 2023 Project Manager and Research Associate at open_in_new Leipzig University Library, specialised information service for media, communication and film studies open_in_new adlr.link
2005 – 2016 Founder and Managing Director of open_in_new La Marée Filmproduktion GbR
2010 – 2014 Research Associate, Research Academy of Leipzig University
2009 – 2012 Visiting Lecturer, open_in_new Institute for Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University
Previously working for EuroArts Music International GmbH, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Kontur 21 Gesellschaft für Marktforschung, Kommunikation und Design mbH and Braunschweiger Zeitung

since 2023 Member of the working group on Participation and Fan Research at the open_in_new Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
since 2020 Jury Member of open_in_new “Nachwuchspreis des Büchner-Verlags”
since 2019 Member of the Editorial Board of open_in_new “Medienwissenschaft: Berichte und Papiere”
since 2019 Member of the working group on Open Media Studies at the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
since 2018 Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG)
ongoing Peer Reviewer for various academic journals like open_in_new Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, open_in_new Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung and others
2022 – 2023 Member of the Editorial Board of the open_in_new Open Library Medienwissenschaft at transcript Independent Academic Publishing
2018 – 2023 Member of the expert group for the field “General” of the Regensburg Library Classification (RVK)
2013 – 2021 Series Editor of open_in_new “Medienrausch”

2014 Dr. phil., Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
2005 M.A. (Magister Artium), Leipzig University
1998 – 2005 academic studies, Communication and Media Studies, Political Sciences, and Modern History, Leipzig University

2024 Co-Realisation/Co-Host, open_in_new ScienceMashup “Games und schulische Bildung”, Lange Nacht der Computerspiele, HTWK Leipzig
2023 Panel Chair, open_in_new Fachtagung “Neue Plattformen – neue Öffentlichkeiten”, HTWK Leipzig
2022 Panel Chair, 8. Bibliothekskongress Leipzig
2019 Panel Chair, 7. Bibliothekskongress Leipzig
2018 Panel Chair, 107. Deutscher Bibliothekartag Berlin
2014 Panel Chair, Tagung “Alternative Cinéphilie(n). Filmkulturen im Umbruch 1945-1989” des Zentrum für Wissenschaft und Forschung | Medien e. V. Leipzig
2012 Co-Realisation, Tagung “Mashup” des Zentrum für Wissenschaft und Forschung | Medien e. V. Leipzig
2012 Co-Realisation, Seminar “Junge Wissenschaft und Praxis” der Research Academy Leipzig
2010 – 2013 Co-Realisation, Science Slams der Kompetenzschule ELSYS der Research Academy Leipzig

winter term 2012/13 Modul “Tagungsorganisation”, Kompetenzschule ELSYS, Research Academy of Leipzig University
winter term 2011/12 Seminar “Einführung in das journalistische Arbeiten”, B.A. Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Leipzig University
winter term 2011/12 Modul “Tagungsorganisation”, Kompetenzschule ELSYS, Research Academy of Leipzig University
winter term 2010/11 Seminar “Einführung in das journalistische Arbeiten”, B.A. Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Leipzig University
winter term 2009/10 Seminar “Einführung in das journalistische Arbeiten”, B.A. Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Leipzig University