Education and Academic Activities

2012/13 Visiting Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität/LMU Munich.

2008 Dissertation. Titel: "The CIAM Discourse on the Heart of the City and the American Neighborhood Unit Theory: A Transatlantic Dialog, 1937-1951". Advisors: Prof.Dr. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (ETH Zurich), Prof.Dr. Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University).

2006 –2007 Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University, Cambridge/Mass., with a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

2005-2006 Participant of the doctoral student exchange program between the Harvard University and the ETH Zurich. Research visits in New York, Washington and Montreal.

2004–2006 Scholarship holder of the postgraduate program "Urban Forms - Conditions and Consequences" at the gta-Institute, ETH Zurich.

2000 Diplom der Architektur (M.A.), ETH Zurich.

1996 Vordiplom der Architektur, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

1993 Graduation from High School, Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium, Erfurt (Germany).


Academic Employment

2011 Lecturer at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (Institute gta), ETH Zürich.

Since 2008 Senior Assistant, Institute gta, Chair for the History of Urban Design, Prof. Dr. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, ETH Zurich.

2002-2004 Guest Reviewer, ETH Zurich, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany), Technische Universität Dresden (Germany).

2000, 2002-2004 Teaching Assistant, Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta), Chair for the History of Urban Design, Prof. Dr. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, ETH Zurich.

2001-2002 Lecturer, Institute gta, ETH Zurich.

2001 Teaching Assistant, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona (Spain).

1998-2000 Assistant, Institute gta, ETH Zurich, Chair for the History of Art and Architecture, Prof. Dr. Werner Oechslin, ETH Zurich.