Curriculum Vitae
Education
10/2013 - 07/2016
Master of Arts in Sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
10/2010 - 07/2013
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with complementary subject Communication Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Training
02/2021
Workshop (online): Machine Learning, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
11/2019
Workshop: Introduction to Bayesian data analysis for social scientists, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
06/2018
CRISP Doctoral Training School, University of St Andrews, UK
06/2017
Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
10/2016
NVivo Training, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Professional Activities
01/2018 - 07/2018
Research Assistant in School of Law, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
09/2012 - 10/2012
Internship at Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Teaching
10/2019-05/2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant in module 'Researching Social Life', Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK
02/2019
Literature Review Tutor on Postgraduate Dissertation Day, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK
04-07/2015
Teaching Assistant in Introduction to Theories of Social Network Analysis, Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
02/2015
Teaching Assistant at postgraduate level Summer School "Network Newbies", Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
10/2014 - 02/2015
Teaching Assistant in postgraduate level Hands-On Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
04-07/2013
Tutor in SPSS, Faculty of Social Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
10/2012 - 02/2013
- Tutor in SPSS, Faculty of Social Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
- Teaching Assistant in Inductive Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
04-07/2012
Teaching Assistant in Descriptive Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
Organization of Conferences and Workshops
2020
Roundtable: The Ethnography of Algorithmic Assemblages (organized with Maria Sapignoli), 18 November
2019
STS-Network Meeting for the Analysis of Computational Knowledge Production in Domestic Security Practices, University of Bremen, Germany, 13-14 September
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops
2019
From HunchLab to ShotSpotter Missions: On the prescription and privatisation of police responses, Data Power 2019, Bremen, Germany, 13 September
2018
- Knowing that it works: epistemologies of evaluating predictive hotspot policing, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Conference, Lancaster, UK, 28 July
- Predictive Policing: A Re-Assembly of Suspicion?, CRISP Doctoral Training School, University of St Andrews, UK, 19 June
- Knowing that it works: epistemologies of evaluating predictive hotspot policing, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 8 June
2017
- Disassembling the rationality of predictive police patrol, Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 17 June
- Predictive Policing - eradicating crime by analysis?, Sociology Department 30th Graduate Conference, Southend, UK, 26 April
Invited Presentations
2019
- Surveillance and Security in the Digital Age, Festival of Social Science, Colchester, UK, 6 November
- Predictive Policing and Human Rights, LLM International Technology Law and Lunchtime Seminar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 12 February
Chaired Sessions
2021
Online Lecture Series: The Future of Criminal Justice Today: Policing, Governance, and Digital Technologies. Speaker: Ronald Niezen (McGill University): "Open Source Justice. Digital Archives and the Criminal State", 1 February
2018
Bulk Data Collection & Human Rights, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 7 June
2016
Post-truth, 'alternative facts' and standpoint epistemology: a CRESI discussion event, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2 March
Funding, Grants and Awards
EASST Fund for STS-Network Meeting for the Analysis of Computational Knowledge Production in Domestic Security Practices, 13/14 Sep, 2019, University of Bremen
HRBDT Doctoral Studentship Maintenance Grant
HRBDT Doctoral Studentship Tuition Fees
HRBDT Doctoral Studentship Research Training Support Grant and Overseas Fieldwork Support Allowance
University of Essex Proficio funding for conference attendance and trainings
Josef Esser Price for the best Master's thesis at the Department of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Membership in Professional Associations
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (since 05/2018)
Surveillance Studies Network (since 04/2018)
European Society of Criminology (since 07/2017)
Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance & Privacy (CRISP)
University of Essex Digital Humanities postgraduate researcher
Digital Technologies in Policing and Security Network (DTiPS)
Peer review for European Journal of Security Studies
Languages
German (first language)
English (fluent written and oral)
French (basic knowledge)
Italian (basic knowledge)
Spanish (basic knowledge)