Curriculum vitae

Education | Professional Positions

2024                 Full professor of Historical Musicology (category W2 in the German academic system)
University of Kassel (DE)
2023

National scientific qualification in Musicology/Music History (ASN, II fascia)
Italian Federcal Ministry of Universities and Research (IT)
Offer of a full professorship in Historical Musicology at the University of Kassel

2020–2024Research fellow in Music History
Max Weber Foundation | German Historical Institute in Rome (IT)
2017–2023University assistant (≈ Assistant professor without tenure track) in Musicology
University of Vienna (AT), 2020–2023 on leave
2015–2018

Postgraduate studies in Music Appreciation/Music Management
(including professional training in public speaking and stage presence)
Detmold University of Music (DE)
Degree: Master of Music (M. Mus.)
M.A. thesis: Opera on the Move: Mobile Music Education on German Railway Long-distance Services 

2014–2017

Doctoral studies in Musicology
University of Vienna (AT)
Degree: Dr. phil.
Dissertation: The Topography of Imagination. Johann Friedrich Rochlitz' Musical Italy around 1800 

2011–2013    

Ph.D. studies and ERP fellow in Musicology
Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences (US)
(withdrawal from Ph.D. contract to continue research in Vienna)

2010–2011

Visiting fellow in Musicology
Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (US)

2005–2010

Studies in Musicology, Early Church History and Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Würzburg (DE)
Degree: Magister Artium (M.A.)
Thesis: Eros and Thanatos in Selected Orchestral Songs by Richard Strauss around 1900

2009

Study abroad (Erasmus) in Lettres modernes
Institut catholique de Paris (FR)

2008–2009

Study abroad in Musicology
University of Vienna (AT)

2004–2005

European Studies (Languages, Literatures, Cultures)
Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (DE)

 

Awards and Prizes (selection)

2022–2023          Leadership Academy 6 fellowship
German Scholars Organization
2018UNIVIE International Award
University of Vienna
2017

Dissertation Prize
Department of Musicology, University of Vienna

2014–2017Ph.D. fellowship
German Academic Merit Foundation
2013

FLAS Summer Travel Research Award for St. Petersburg
Stanford Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREEES)

2013Chair's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Department of Music, Stanford University
2012   

Go East Summer school "Modern Russian"
Moscow State Universtiy/German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 

2011–2016Full Ph.D. funding 
Stanford University, Department of Music (withdrawn from program upon coursework completion in order to pursue research in Vienna)
2011–2013

ERP fellow at Stanford University
European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), German Federcal Ministry of Science and Technology

2010–2011

Visiting fellowship (with merit-based tuition fee waver upon nomination by the DAAD)
Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

2010–2011

Postgraduate fellowship (non-degree) at Harvard University
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2010Summer school English as a Second Language
University of San Francisco, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2007–2010 Student fellowship and admission to the humanities fellowship program "Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg II"
German Academic Merit Foundation
  • Texts, moderation, introductory talks and interviews for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bolzano Festival Bozen, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, the Lübeck Opera, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz as well as broadcast stations such as SWR2, SRF 2 and Ö1, among others.
  • Advisory board member of the journal Quaderni dell'Istituto Liszt
  • Reviewer, among others, for the Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi, Philomusica on-line, the German Academic Merit Foundation as well as the European Recovery Program