Originally from Vienna, Austria, I received my Magister (Master's equivalent) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and continued with a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) on the unceded territory of the Musqueam people (Vancouver). Throughout this time, I was privileged to having been invited to research at Hawaiian-focused charter schools on 'āina(land)-based education and its meaning for youth.

 

The emergence of agricultural biotechnology on Hawai'i led me to science & technology studies (STS) for which I received training at UBC and as pre-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Program of Science, Technology & Society. I later continued as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University Munich, with a brief visiting research stay the Cornell University Department of Science & Technology Studies, and as Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa, the unceded territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation.

 

Since March 2023, I am lecturer and researcher (akademische Rätin), and Affiliate Researcher at the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, where I teach biology students science & technology studies and creative formats of public engagement and science communication in the life sciences. I am currently also preparing my Habilitation at the Rachel Carson Center entitled "Humans - Food - Environments: Contributions to the Environmental Humanities from Science and Technology Studies and Sociocultural Anthropology."