Work experience
- Since 2021: Head of the bachelor degree programme in vocational education and training VET/senior researcher, Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET, Zollikofen
- 2020-2021: Postdoc/senior assistant at the Chair of Vocational Education and Training, Institute of Education, University of Zurich
- 2018-2020: Postdoctoral visiting scholar (SNSF early postdoc mobility) KU Leuven & GHI Washington DC
- 2011-2018: Lecturer at the universities of Zurich and Wuppertal
- 2010-2018: Research project assistant at the Institute of Education, University of Zurich
Education
- 2011-2016: Doctorate in Educational Science, University of Zurich
- 2010: University degree
- 2002-2010: Degree in General History, General Pedagogics and Economic and Social History
Teaching experience
Bachelor degree programme (partly higher lectureship):
- 2021: Introduction to occupational and business educational theory (University of Zurich)
- 2020: Introduction to academic work (University of Zurich)
- 2020: Introduction to occupational and business educational theory (University of Zurich)
- 2013-2018: Historical/text analysis research methods (University of Zurich)
- 2017: Child welfare: a pedagogic category in transformation (University of Zurich)
- 2015: State, family, education: past and present (University of Zurich)
- 2011: History and theory of education (University of Zurich)
Master’s degree programme (partly higher lectureship):
- 2021: Employability and entrepreneurship (University of Zurich)
- 2021: Research colloquium on occupational and business educational theory (University of Zurich)
- 2020: Education, careers and business (University of Zurich)
- 2019: Educational policy (KU Leuven)
- 2018: History of modern educational systems (KU Leuven)
- 2015-2016: Education systems in federalism (University of Wuppertal)
- 2011: Educational institutions, educational reform, educational policy (University of Zurich)
Doctoral degree programme:
- 2020: Educating entrepreneurs for postcapitalism (University of Zurich)
- 2015: Data and experts in education policy (University of Zurich)
- 2013+2015: Zurich workshop on historical educational research (University of Zurich)
Area of expertise
- (Occupational) educational history
- Economic education
- Education policy research
- Digital humanities
Publications
Transfer into practice
Presentations
Awards
- 2020: Winner of the annual fellowship of the History of Knowledge @Lund University Research Group
- 2019: Winner of the Savings and Retail Banking History Award for the article: When Banking met Education
- 2013: Winner of the ISCHE Conference Paper Prize Award together with Flavian Imlig for the article: Evidence as a Source of Power in Education Policy
Mandates/Memberships
- Since 2022: Reviewer for the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berufsbildungsforschungsnetz (ABFFN)
- Since 2022: Reviewer for Education Sciences (MDPI)
- Since 2021: Reviewer for the Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften SZBW (Swiss Journal of Educational Sciences)
- Since 2019: Reviewer for the European Educational Research Association (EERA)
- Since 2019: Reviewer for the Jahrbuch Historische Bildungsforschung (Yearbook of Historical Educational Research) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (German Educational Research Association)
- Since 2018: Reviewer for Paedagogica Historicaof the International Standing Conference for the History of Education
- Since 2015: Member of the editorial team of Der Almanach
- Since 2014: Member of the Historische Bildungsforschung (Historical Educational Research) office of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung SGBF (Swiss Educational Research Association)
- 2017-2018: Co-publisher of the HistorischeBildungsforschung und Bildungspolitikanalyse (Historical Education Research and Education Policy Analysis) series (Institute of Education, University of Zurich)