earned her doctorate in philosophy at Braunschweig University of Art. She is currently an academic assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Hildesheim and a member of two research groups at the CSIC research center in Madrid. In 2013, she became the Chillida guest professor at the Art History Institute of the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main. She carries out research and publishes on concepts of space, the problem of time, issues of memory, aesthetic experience and contemporary forms of memorial culture, on anthropological issues, and on European and non-European art and philosophy.