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
2020–2024	Research Fellow in Music History Max Weber Foundation \| German Historical Institute in Rome (IT)
2017–2023	University 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
2018	UNIVIE International Award University of Vienna
2017	Dissertation Prize Department of Musicology, University of Vienna
2014–2017	Ph.D. fellowship German Academic Merit Foundation
2013	FLAS Summer Travel Research Award for St. Petersburg Stanford Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREEES)
2013	Chair's Award for Excellence in Teaching Department of Music, Stanford University
2012	Go East-Sommerschule "Modernes Russisch" Moscow State Universtiy/German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2011–2016	Full 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)
2010	Summer school English as a Second Language University of San Francisco, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2007–2010	Student fellowship and Admission to an additional 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.