Post-DOC Researcher 
Project: EurAsia (“Eurasian Transformation” Cluster of Excellence)

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience (Research and Teaching)

December 2023 –

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Project: EurAsia (“Eurasian Transformation” Cluster of Excellence)

July 2021 – November 2024

Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität Wien, Vienna

Project: ERC Synergy Grant HistoGenes

January 2021 – June 2021

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Project: Mapping Medieval People – Visualizing Semantic Landscapes in Early Medieval Europe

January 2020 – December 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Project: Gemeinschaften, Völker, Mobilität

September 2019 – December 2019

Fellow at the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, Rome

Project: Coping with the Crisis – Remnants of Imperial Geography in Post-Roman Italy

March 2019 – August 2019

Lecturer at Universität Wien, Vienna

070260 GR Guided Reading - Geographical Knowledge and Imagination in Medieval Eurasia

July 2017 – February 2019

Associate Project Investigator at Universität Wien, Vienna

Project: Visions of Community – Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire and Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400-1600 CE)

July 2014 – June 2017

PhD Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Project: Ethnonyms by Comparison – An Interdisciplinary Survey in Medieval Western Europe and in Southwest Arabia

Education

January 2015 – June 2015

Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) at Princeton University

March 2014 – November 2019

PhD, History with honours at Universität Wien

October 2012 – November 2012

Visiting Student at Frei Universität Berlin 

February 2011 – July 2011

Visiting Student (Erasmus Programme) at Universität Wien

September 2007 – March 2013

BA and MA, History (110/110 cum laude) at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Research Grants and Awards

May 2023 – May 2024

Post-DOC Fellowship for a project on the use of the past in contemporary Europe. Grant from the Istituto italiano per la storia antica.

August 2023

Kurzzeitstipendium at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, financed by the state of Lower Saxony.

May 2023 – July 2023

JESH Fellowship at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), financed by the ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

January 2022 – January 2023

Post-DOC Fellowship for a contribution on the Collectanea rerum memorabilium of Gaius Julius Solinus. Grant from the Istituto italiano per la storia antica.

September 2019 – December 2019

Fellowships at the Historical Institute at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome (ROM-Stipendium). Financed by the ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

July 2014 – June 2017

DOC-team Fellowship. Financed by the ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

January 2009

Best Student Award – First year of History BA at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.