Selected research and teaching projects, closely intertwined and combining scholarly inquiry, curatorial projects, and practice-based seminars.

Key research projects  

• Collective Scores and Concerts within the Mail Art Network (working title) – Research contribution developed as member of the research project ESCON – Escrituras en Contacto: Intermediate Writing Networks in the Age of Analogue Globalisation (1961–1991), funded by the State Research Agency (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain), 2025–2026.

• Archives of Women Artists in the Space of a Book – Research contribution developed within the transnational seminars Thinking about the Material in a “Modest” Artists’ Book, Lyon (France) and Krakow (Poland), 2024–2025.

• Visualisation, Communication, and Reflection of Ambiguous, Informal, and Disruptive Knowledge – Empirical study conducted within the research network Functioning and Effects of Religious Representations, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), across the Universities of Münster and Dortmund (Germany), 2011–2015.

• The Dual Empirical Inaccessibility of Knowledge and Meaning-Making Processes in the Engagement with Religious Representations –  External evaluation commissioned by the European Network for Visual Literacy (ENViL) and the University Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), 2014.

• Risks and Side Effects of the Assessment of Competences in Art Education. A Critical Research Report on Hegemonic Research Postulates – developed within the framework of an interdisciplinary program at the IPN – Leibniz Institute Kiel, in collaboration with the University of Bremen (Germany), 2011.

• Methods to Visualize / Generate / Reflect Self-Determined Processes of Knowledge Creation – Empirical study design for a doctoral dissertation at the IPN – Leibniz Institute Kiel, approved by the scientific board, conducted with M. Peters, 2009–2011.

• Pilot Project on Visual Literacy in Schools – Scientific consultation, commissioned by the Senate of Hamburg, University of Bremen (Germany), with M. Peters, 2009–2011. 

• Hedonism in Media, Arts, and Education – Co-organization of the research committee, Universities of Bremen, Flensburg, and Frankfurt (Germany), 2010.

• Communicating Research Results – Co-organization of a research colloquium, Academy of Loccum / Hannover (Germany), 2010.

• Bas Jan Ader and his Artistic Reception since the 1990s – Doctoral dissertation, completed 2009.

Selected teaching activities 

Since 2016, in German and French:

• École normale supérieure de Paris (ENS–PSL, since 2024)
• École des Mines de Paris (Mines–PSL, since 2023)
• Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP, 2016–2022)

Earlier teaching positions held at:

• University of Porto, Portugal
• University of Cologne, Germany
• University of Bremen, Germany