CV

  • Since 10/2018: University assistant (post doc) in the Discipline of Alevi-Theological Studies at the University of Vienna
  • Since 2019: Lecturer at the Department of Alevi Religion at the University College of Christian Churches for Teacher Education Vienna/Krems
  • 2022: Research Award of the Annemarie Schimmel Foundation for Islamic Studies and the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft [German Oriental Society] (Islamic Studies Section)
  • 2018: Dissertation Prize: Sponsorship Prize of the Fritz and Helga Exner Foundation by the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft
  • 2017 - 2018: Coordinator of the interreligious project Dialogue FOR Democracy of the Bavarian Youth Council, Munich
  • 2017: Doctorate on the topic Transcending Dervishes. Cultural Relations of the Bektashi Order, 1826 - 1925 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich
  • 2016: Scholarship holder at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz
  • 2012 - 2018: Active member of the International Research Group New Religiosities in Turkey at the Orient-Institut Istanbul and at the EHESS in Paris
  • 2012 - 2017: Fellow at the International Research Training Group Religious Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe at the Universities of Munich, Prague, Brno and Poznan
  • 2012 - 2015: Scholarship holder and research assistant at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
  • 2012: Fellow at the Orient Institute in Istanbul
  • 2010 - 2012: Assistant for programme communication in the press office of n-tv news television
  • 2005 - 2011: Degree in History and Philosophy in Cologne and Istanbul