is an art historian. She has been a research associate in the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) project »Archive for the Research of Material Iconography« at the Department of Art History at the University of Hamburg, where she also gained her PhD. Since November 2011 she has been a member of the NCCR Iconic Criticism eikones at Universität Basel and has been working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the chair for science studies at ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich).