focuses in her research on the techniques of imagination in literature, film and comic strips, and on manifestations of 19th- and 20th-century realism. She was research assistant with the collaborate research centre »Das Leben schreiben. Medientechnologie und die Wissenschaften vom Leben (1800-1900)« at Bauhaus University, Weimar (2005/2006) and as post-doctorate at the Max Planck »Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz«. She currently works as a post-doc scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science, Berlin and as a lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin.