Academic Profile

• 2008-2011: Master of Arts (M.A.) in Political Science, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover
• 2012-2018: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Philosophy, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover
• 2019-2023: Research Collaboration with the Department of Eastern European History, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel
• May 2024: Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the History, Ethics, and Theory of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, to conduct research on project:
• Germany and the Global South: International Adoptions Reflected in German-South African and Chilean Relations (1946-1989)

Research Focus:

• German-Polish Relations in the 20th Century
• Child Studies
• Memory Studies
• History of Institutional Care and Welfare
• Transnational Adoption in the Cold War Era

Publications:

• Fremd in der Heimat. Deutsche Bevölkerung im Nachkriegspolen [Homeless. Germans in Post-War Poland (1945-1948)], Hamburg, 2019.
• Kinder im Schatten des Krieges. Heimerziehung in Polen nach 1945, [Children in the Shadow of the War. Institutional Care in Poland after 1945], Berlin, 2024.

Research Article:

• German children in Poland after the Second World War, In: Romanian Journal of Population Studies, Vol. XVII, Bd. 2 (2023), pp. 61-85.
• Children between the border of Germany and Poland, In: Damals Vol. 11 (2021), pp. 45-46. Strangers in the homeland. Germans in Poland after the Second World War, in: 
• Prescribed Neighbourhoods. Transformation Process in the Polish-German Borderland since the Second World War, In: Jahrbuch für deutsche und osteuropäische Volkskunde, Vol. 58 (2017), pp 164-170.
• Antisemitic Campaign in East Germany in 1952 and 1953], in: Komunizm: system – ludzie – dokumentacja,Vol. 2 (2013), pp. 203-211.

Books reviews:

• Jakub Gałęziowski, Niedopowiedziane biografie. Polskie dzieci urodzone z Publikationen powodu wojny, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warsawa 2022. In: H-Soz-Kult, Berlin 2023
• Magdalena Lemańczyk, Mniejszość niemiecka na Pomorzu Gdańskim, Towarzystwo Kulturalne Ludności Niemieckiej „Ojczyzna”, Kwidzynie 2016. In: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN, Warszawa 2017.

International Fellowships:

• 2014 German Historical Institut in Warschau (Polen)
• 2022 Department of History of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florenz (Italien)
• 2023 Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences in Tampere (Finland)