I am currently working as a research coordinator for the project Berlin’s Australian Archive (BAA) led by Prof. Dr. Anja Schwarz (Uni Potsdam) and PD. Dr. Eva Bischoff (Uni Trier) (https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-cult/staff/schwarz/berlins-australian-archive). Last year, I finished my master’s degree in Applied Cultural Studies and Cultural Semiotics at the University of Potsdam where I also did my bachelor in Cultural Studies and English.

My master’s thesis was strongly attached to my then workplace, the archive at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN). In my thesis, I explored archives as a place of cultural remembrance and forgetting, as well as addressing questions of dealing with archival material from colonial contexts, especially from Australia. This interest stemmed from a long-time involvement with the project Berlin’s Australian Archive and personal interests in the mechanisms of cultural memory.

Coming from a cultural studies background, I am interested in intercultural entanglements (past and present) and the history of natural sciences in the 19^th century in connection with colonialism.

• „Ist ein Tier ein Dokument?“ Essay for Bilder der Natur (https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/ist-ein-tier-ein-dokument), 2024.
• „Collections from Colonial Australia in Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde and the Challenges of Data Accessibility“ – Conference poster for TDWG 2023 with Co-Authors Prof. Dr. Anja Schwarz and Dr. Sabine von Mering (https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111980).
• “Archive als Orte des kulturellen Gedächtnisses – Der Umgang mit Archivgut aus kolonialen Kontexten am Beispiel des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin” Masterarbeit 2023 (to be published in 2024).
• “Berücksichtigung von Indigenous Property Rights bei der Digitalisierung der Bildsammlung Blandowski“ – Lecture/speech with Alona Dubovski at the 5. Workshop Retrodigitalisierung organised by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (https://doi.naturkundemuseum.berlin/data/10.7479/bmey-0h14).
• „Interview: Working in the Archive II” https://collectingoz.hypotheses.org/161.