Personal details

• Research Areas

  ? ? ?History of Zoology & Animal Studies
  ? ? ?History of Nature & Science in the Early Modern Period
  ? ? ?Colonial Systems of Knowledge and Imaginative Practices
  ? ? ?Collecting, Classifying and Representing Non-European Animals?
  ? ? ?Environmental History
  ? ? ?Global History of the Early Modern Period

• Curriculum Vitae

  Since 2025?
  PhD Candidate and Fellow, Research Training Group “Explorations in Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining”. Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics”

  05/2026
  Research fellowship for 4 weeks at the German Historical Institute, London

  11/2024
  State postgraduate scholarship (initially awarded, later declined in favour of the Imaginamics scholarship)

  2020–2024
  First state examination in Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

  2017–2023
  First State Examination in History & German Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, State Examination thesis: “Experiencing and Perceiving the Plague: Plague Imaginations in the Early Modern Period”

  06/2023
  Blended Intensive Programme: Mapping the World, University of Padua (Italy)

  2021–2024
  Student assistant and tutor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Chair of Early Modern History, Prof. Dr Kim Siebenhüner

• Publications
• Further Activities

  Presentations

  2026?
  ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting: Ignavus in Circulation: Sloth-Keeping, Colonial Misinterpretation, and the Erasure of Indigenous Knowledge in Early Modern Zoology

  2026
  Lecture at the DHI London: ‘Colonial Zoology’ in the Early Modern Period: Animals between Science, Power and Imagination

  2025?
  Workshop on Ernst Haeckel and the Early Modern Period, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.?
  Lecture title: “Perillo ligero, or nimble dog, and yet it is the laziest of all animals” – How
  Europe (dis)covered the sloth