works as a research associate and lecturer at the Center for Contemporary Dance at the University of Music and Dance Cologne. Her main research interests are theory and practice of performing arts, dance and media as well as gender and media. After finishing her studies with a Masters degree in Theatre and Media Studies at the University of Cologne in 2007, she was a trainee at the dance theater Pina Bausch in Wuppertal. As a choreographer and performer she has realized a wide range of projects such as inter-media stage performances, short-films and dance-installations.