studied cultural sciences and history at Humboldt-University in Berlin. She is assistant professor at the department of literature, Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin Institute of Technology). From 2005 to 2007 she had a scholarship by the German Research Foundation, as member of the graduate school History of Media – Media of History (Universities of Weimar, Erfurt, Jena). From 2008 to 2009 she was scientific staff of Praxis für Ausstellung und Theorie, Berlin for the exhibition Arbeit. Sinn und Sorge at Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden.