• The Eastern Mediterranean in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BCE
• Pre- and Protohistory of Sardinia
• Knowledge and Materiality
• Anthropology/Archaeology of techniques
• Landscape Archaeology

Education

03/01/2020 Positive evaluation of a junior-professorship (equivalent to habilitation)        
02/15/2007 Conferral of doctorate (summa cum laude)
02/15/2007 Thesis: Die Wandmalereien von Tall Mishrife/Qatna im Kontext einer ägäisch-syrischen Kommunikation       
2004 – 2007 Doctoral research studies with several research stays in Syria, Egypt, Greece and Turkey 
2003 – 2004  Fellow of the graduate school ‘Anatolien und seine Nachbarn’, Eberhard-Karls-University/Tübingen
1997 – 2002 Under- and postgraduate studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University/ Freiburg and at the University of Nicosia, graduation with Master of Arts (Magistra Artium, sehr gut, equivalent to A)

Relevant Experience

Since 2020 Steering committee of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum
03/01/2020 Full professorship for Pre- and Protohistory, Ruhr-University Bochum; core area: Mediterranean Pre- and Protohistory of the Mediterranean and Theory
06/12/2018 – 02/13/2019 Maternity leave
02/01/2018 – 03/30/2018 P. M. Warren guest-professorship for Aegean Prehistory at the University Bristol/UK
2014 – 2020 Junior-Professor for Pre- and Protohistory of the Mediterranean, Ruhr-University Bochum
02/01/2018 – 03/30/2018 P.M. Warren Visitor Professorship for Aegean Prehistory at the University Bristol/UK
01/01/2016 – 03/31/2016 Research scholar, Getty Research Institute/ Los Angeles, United States of America
03/01/2007 – 05/31/2010 Foreign Fellowship, German Archaeological Institute in Athens
09/01/2004 – 11/30/2006 Scholarship of the ‘German National Academic Foundation’ (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
01/01/2004 – 08/30/2004 Scholarship, ‘Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg’
07/01/2003 – 12/31/2003 Scholarship, Graduate School ‘Anatolien und seine Nachbarn’ Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

Honors and Awards

03/01/2020 Listed for the professorships: Ancient History of Knowledge/Free University Berlin (W3) and the professorship “Ancient civilizations”/University Graz
02/01/2018 – 03/30/2018 P.M. Warren Visitor Professorship for Aegean Prehistory at the University Bristol/UK
01/01/2016 – 03/31/2016 Research scholar, Getty Research Institute/ Los Angeles, United States of America
03/01/2007 – 05/31/2010 Foreign Fellowship, German Archaeological Institute in Athens
09/01/2004 – 11/30/2006 Scholarship of the ‘German National Academic Foundation’ (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
01/01/2004 – 08/30/2004 Scholarship, ‘Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg’
07/01/2003 – 12/31/2003 Scholarship, Graduate School ‘Anatolien und seine Nachbarn’ Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

Institutional Services

Since 2025 Executive manager of the Institute of Archaeological Studies/Ruhr-University Bochum  
Since 2022 Deputy member of the Senate/Ruhr-University Bochum
2022 Vice-dean of the faculty for Historical Sciences
2018-2020 Executive manager of the Institute of Archaeological Studies/Ruhr-University Bochum       
Since 2014 Member of the committee ‘Structure and Finances’/Ruhr-University Bochum
2017-2020 Mentoring-program of the Ruhr-University Bochum
2017-2020 Board of the Research School Plus/Ruhr-University Bochum

• Field project ‘Nuragic Ports and Anchorages.  A view from the Sea at the island of Sant’Antioco’ in cooperation with Yassur Assaf-Landau (funded by the Henkel Stiftung
   
• Field project ‘Making Landscape. An Investigation of the Pre- and Proto-historic Taskscapes on the Islet of Sant’Antioco/ Sardinia’ (funded by the German Research Foundation/DFG)
• Principal investigator of the Leibniz-Science Campus ‘ReForm’ (Resources in Transformation), in cooperation with the Department of Economics, Ruhr-University Bochum, and the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum/Bochum   
• Participant NFDI4Objects (Research Data Infrastructure for the Material Remains of Human History) of the German Archaeological Institute and the Leibniz Zentrum für Archäologie
• The Wall Paintings from Tell el-Dab^ca (field project) (in cooperation with the Academy of Science/ Vienna and the Austrian Archaeological Institute) (funded by the Institute of Aegean Prehistory/Philadelphia)

• Aegean Design in Oriental Palaces – Knowledge and Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Second Millennium B.C.’; 2012 – 2016 funded by the German National Foundation (in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• ‘Feasting and Depositional Practice in Late Bronze Age Palaepaphos/Cyprus’, 2010 – 2016, funded by the Henkel Foundation