Since completing my Ph.D. in Communication and Media Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf with the thesis "Jugendliche und Politik - zwischen Like-Button und Parteibuch” (Youth and Politics - Between the Like Button and Party Membership) in 2015, I have been working as a freelance speaker, trainer, and consultant. 

My thematic focus areas include: 

• digital and political youth participation
• digital education and skills
• citizen science and science communication.

From 2023 to 2024, I conducted research on digital participation and democracy at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology in Berlin. Prior to this, from 2019 to 2022, I worked in research and teaching at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, specializing in participation and citizen science. From 2017 to 2018, I was Head of the Vocational and Digital Education Department at the Cologne Adult Education Centre. From 2007 to 2012, I worked as a research assistant in the media industry department at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Cologne.