Historian
2008-present: Senior Researcher at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture
2010-present: Co-coordinator of the „International Research Group ‚Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’“
2001-present: Contact for the Working Group „War and Gender“
2008 Associated with the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Memorial
2008 Completion of a doctoral degree in history at the University of Cologne
2005 Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
2003–2007: Scholarship holder, Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture
2001–2003: Staff member in the Research Unit: Theory and History of Violence
1996–2001: Editorial assistant for the journal "Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung in Norddeutschland", published by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
1994: Recipient of a scholarship from ASA; research stay in Seoul, South Korea
Studied history, modern German literature, and Korean studies at the University of Hamburg and Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea