Professorship for Photographic Media in the Digital Age at the University of Basel

2020-2023

Interim Professorship Media, Communication, Society at the Seminar for Media Studies at the University of Basel

2018-2019

Lecturer at the Chair of Contemporary Art, Institute of Art History, Université de Genève (UNIGE)

2015-2020

SNF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne, research on the history of microfilm, image archives and image search engines (with Olivier Lugon)

2017

Visiting Scholar at the Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California

2017

The Huntington Research Fellowship, The Huntington Library, Pasadena

July-Aug. 2014

Post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Since 2013

Lecturer in the history and theory of photography at ECAL (École cantonale d'art de Lausanne)

2012

Research award of the German Society of Photography for the dissertation project "Photography and the Commodification of Images: From the Bettmann Archive to Corbis"

2009-2011

Pre-doc fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (with Lorraine Daston)

May-Dec. 2009

Research assistant at the Institute of Art History at the Chair of History and Theory of Photography, University of Duisburg-Essen

Jan-May 2009

Research assistant at the 'Laboratoire d'histoire visuelle contemporaine', EHESS, Paris

2007-2011

PhD at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Université Paris I-Sorbonne

2003-2007

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Paris, coordination of projects for the conservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage

2003

Scholarship holder of the Carlo-Schmid-Program, German National Academic Foundation / DAAD / Robert-Bosch Foundation

1996-2003

Studies of art history, economics and English language and literature at the University of Regensburg and the Humboldt University of Berlin