2007-2011: University of Oxford
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) at Department of German, Supervisor: Prof. Ritchie Robertson

2002-2007: University of Vienna,
Magister in German Studies

2002-2005: University of Vienna,
BA in Chinese Studies

2025–: Senior Researcher and Team Leader at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava)

2025: MSCA-COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences

2018-2020: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of German Studies, University of Vienna

2015-2017: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Philosophy and Literature, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)

2012-2015: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of German, University of Cambridge

“Fragile Futures: A Critical Investigation of the Intersections between Fictional and Non-fictional Accounts of the Long-term Future”, IMPULZ grant, Team Leader with 2 postdocs (2025-2029)

“World Government: New Grand Narratives in Contemporary Science-Fiction”, MSCA-COFUND (2021-2025)

“Anthropocene World Literature“, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018-2020)

“Supplementing the Classics“, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012-2015)