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Education & Employment
Visiting Fellow (funded by the Marie-Curie-Program) 2025 – 2026
History of Science Department
Harvard University
(Cambridge/MA, USA)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2024 – 2025
Martin-Buber-Society of Fellows
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2023 – 2024
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici
(Naples, Italy)
PhD, History 2018 – 2023
European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
Dissertation title: “Retiring in Early Modern Germany.
Old Age Provision and Social Mobility Across the Life Cycle, c. 1600-1800”
Supervisors: Regina Grafe and Giorgio Riello
[defended and awarded 9. June 2023]
M. Res., History 2018 – 2019
European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
M. Sc., Economic History 2017 – 2018
Lund University (Lund, Sweden)
M. A., Political Science 2014 – 2017
Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany)
B. A., Political Sciences & History 2011 – 2014
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Erlangen, Germany)
My working languages are English, German and Italian. I additionally read Dutch, Latin and Russian.