2013

Prize for Young Scholars for the PhD dissertation, awarded by the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS), Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST)

2012

Johann Lorenz Bausch Award for the PhD dissertation, awarded by the Leopoldina Akademie Freundeskreis e.V.

since 2012

Assistant Professor at the chair for the history of science in the history department of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

2012

Prize for Young Scholars for the PhD dissertation, awarded by the Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik e.V.

2012

Frances A. Yates Fellowship at the Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study

2012

Ph.D. in Early Modern and Modern History, English Literary Studies, LMU; dissertation title: “How Did a Centaur Get to Early Modern London? Observation and Reading in the European Study of Nature, ca. 1550-1750”; advisors: Prof. Dr. Helmut Zedelmaier, LMU, Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin; Summa cum laude

2011-2012

Associate Research Fellow, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York

2006-2011

Predoctoral research grant as part of the larger research project “The History of Scientific Observation”, MPIWG, department II, Berlin; intermitted several times for research trips and fellowships elsewhere

2010-2011

predoctoral research grant, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation

2010

Herzog-Ernst Scholarship for research at the Research Library of Erfurt-Gotha

2009-2010

predoctoral research grant, funded by the FAZIT Foundation

2007-2008

scholarship for research at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, funded by the Dr. Günther Findel-Stiftung zur Förderung der Wissenschaften

2005

Magister Artium in Early Modern and Modern History, English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) after studying at Universität zu Köln, at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at HU