Curriculum vitae

Education

Since 02/2026 Habilitation „Comprehensive Catalogue of Beta Israel Manuscripts,“ at the Institute for the Near and Middle East of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
06/2009 – 10/2023 PhD “Die Angelologie der Aksimaros-Literatur. Aufnahme und Anwendung eines literarischen Motivs“, Universität Hamburg, Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik
10/2003 – 05/2009 Magister in Ethiopian Studies (with minors in Comparative Religious Studies, and History of Natural Sciences), Universität Hamburg, Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik (Abschluss: Magister Artium)

Since 02/2025 Research Associate: “Understanding the ‘Kingdom of the Gideonites’: The Shaping of the Memory of Ethiopia’s Jewish Kingdom and its Impact on Ethiopian Jewish Identity Discourse, Past and Present.” German-Israeli Foundation 2025-2027.
Since 01/2023 Scientific Coordinator: BeInf: The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity (2022-2027), Universität Hamburg (ERC Consolidator Grant)
06/2021-06/2024 Research Associate: Demarginalizing medieval Africa: Images, texts, and identity in early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270-1527), Universität Hamburg
Since 03/2021 Member of the editorial team of Aethiopica Journal
10/2015-09/2020 Research Associate: Jews and Christians in the East: Strategies of Interaction between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (ERC-Consolidator Grant)
01/2013-12/2014 Research Associate: Ethio-SPaRe: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia. Salvation, Preservation, Research, Universität Hamburg, Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik (ERC-Starting Grant Project)
06/2009 – 12/2012 Assistent Editor: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Universität Hamburg, Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik