Curriculum Vitae
Education
2021 – present
PhD Candidate, Department 'Law and Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
2016 – 2019
Master of Arts in the Study of Religion (MA), Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig.
Thesis: Statements and argumentation strategies of church representatives and theologians in bioethical debates
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleine, Prof. Dr. Horst Junginger
2017
Erasmus+ Studies at the University of Turku (Finland)
2013 – 2016
Bachelor of Arts in the Study of Religion (MA), Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig.
Professional Activities
9/2019 – 1/2021
Trainee at Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH in Berlin
05/2019 – 06/2019
Research Assistant at the Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig
02/2018 – 03/2018
Research Assistant at the Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig
10/2016 - 08/2017
Tutor and Research Assistant at the Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig
Presentation at Conferences and Workshops
September 2023
Paper: ‘Truly Dead? German Catholic Debates in the 1960s-80s on the Permissability of Brain Death and Organ Donation Oscillating between Theology and Neurology’ at the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) ‘Religions and Technologies” in Vilnius, Lithuania (4-8 September).
April 2023
Paper: ‘A “Meaning in Death” through Organ Donation? Recurring Narratives in Donor Statements and Grief Counselling in Germany’ at the 5th International Conference in Transatlantic Studies ‘Topographies of Medicine’ at the Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University, USA (28-29 April 2023).
August 2022
Paper: ‘The Incomplete “Gift Exchange” and “Cultures of Gratitude”: Preliminary Findings from Engaging with Patient Initiatives in Germany’ at the Colloquium of the Research Group Ethics of Exchange at the Max-Planck-Instutute for Social Anthropology, Germany (26 August 2022).
February 2019
Paper: ‘Transhumanism’ in the lecture series ‘Of War Heroes, Shamans and Internet Rituals: Young Religious Studies Talk’: Popular science lecture as part of Senior Citizens' Academy in Winter Semester 2018/19 at the Institute for Study of Religion, University of Leipzig, Germany (8 February 2019).
July 2018
Paper: ‘Blurring Lines of Transcendence and Immanence - Soteriological Promises of Transhumanism's Utopias’ at the Summer school ‘Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Super-Naturalism’ at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford, UK (6 - 7 July 2018).
November 2017
Paper: ‘Transhumanist Soteriology - suffering and imperfections as a driving force for an utopian idea’ at the Colloquium of the Finnish Society for the Study of Religion in Hanko, Finland (16 - 17 November 2017).
Languages
German: Native speaker
English: Fluent