• Since 2022: Professor of Qualitative Methods, Furtwangen University
• Since 2021: Freelance research consultant specialising in qualitative methods, with a focus on grounded theory, ethnography, and qualitative content analysis
• 2021–2022: Teaching at the Wilhelmshaven University of Cooperative Education (Bachelor’s degree in Social Work)
• 2020–2022: Affiliated postdoctoral researcher in research and teaching of qualitative research methods, Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Bonn
• 2014–2021: Executive Director and co-head of the school administration at the Freie Gemeinschaftsschule Bremen and VFAS e.V.
• 2020: Research Assistant at the Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies (Focus: Southeast Asia) at the University of Passau.
• 2019: Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Qualitative Methods in the Department of Psychology & Methods at Jacobs University Bremen.
• 2019: PhD in Psychology from Jacobs University
• 2009–2019: Research Assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Qualitative Methods in the Department of Psychology & Methods at Jacobs University Bremen.
• 2007: Bachelor’s degree in Social Pedagogy from the University of Bremen

Areas of teaching

• Methods of Qualitative Social Research – Introduction and Advanced Topics
• Qualitative Research Workshop
• Global Health
• Planetary Health
• Public Health and Planetary Health
• Transformative Change and Practices of Transformative Action

Current research projects and research networks

• Planetare Gesundheit mittels Settingansatz im Studium erlebbar machen (Bringing Planetary Health to Life Through a Setting-Based Approach in Higher Education) Cross-Border teaching project. Funded by the Lake Constance Four-Country Region Science Network with funding from the Interreg VI Alpine Rhine-Lake Constance-Upper Rhine Programme. Project Director: Prof. Dr. Andrea Glässel. Project Duration: June 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025
• Vom Muffensausen, Bammel und anderen psychischen Zuständen in Zeiten krisenhafter Umweltveränderungen: ein mobiles Art-Based ResonanzLab (On anxiety, jitters, and other psychological states in times of crisis-driven environmental change: a mobile art-based resonance lab) Research transfer project under the Sustainable Lake Constance Region programme line. Funded by the Lake Constance Four-Country Region Science Network with funds from the Interreg VI Alpine Rhine-Lake Constance-Upper Rhine programme. Project director: Prof. Dr. Nicole Weydmann. Project duration: June 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025
• Health and healthcare of children and adolescents with migration experience in the European Region. Priority setting partnership with the James Lind Alliance. Project director: Dr. Julia Brandenberger. Project duration: May 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025
• Gesundheitswälder und Waldgesundheit - die muiltiperspektivische Aushandlung von gesundheitlichen Nutzungskonzepten der Wälder in Baden-Württemberg (Health Forests and Forest Health – The Multi-Perspective Negotiation of Health-Oriented Forest Use Concepts in Baden-Württemberg) Cooperation project with the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Food, Rural Affairs, and Consumer Protection (MLR) and the Baden-Württemberg Forest Research Institute (FVA). Project duration: January 1, 2024 – March 31, 2025.
• Lokale Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die psychische Gesundheit von Forstwirten und Waldbesitzern im Schwarzwald (Local impacts of climate change on the mental health of foresters and forest owners in the Black Forest) Research partnership, an internal university funding programme with Prof. Dr. Christian Weidmann, Project duration: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2024
   
• Co-editor of the “Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods” discussion series in the Forum for Qualitative Social Research (FQS)
• Member and part of the coordination team of the interdisciplinary teaching workshop network for instructors of qualitative research methods
• Member of the Institute for Qualitative Social Research, Freiburg (iqs)