I am an Assistant Professor in Modern European History at Dublin City University. My work explores how people, non-governmental organizations, nation-states, and international institutions interacted in addressing contentious societal issues like reproductive politics, property regimes, or the relations between empires and their colonies. My first book “Population Control as a Human Right” (CUP 2025/Wallstein 2020) investigates the regulation of contraceptives in international law and analyses the role of anxieties about overpopulation in this debate. My current book project develops a transnational history of genetic screening from the 1960s, focusing on Ireland, the US, and Eastern and Western Germany. In parallel, I am completing a manuscript on the role of property in German colonialism.

With a background in IT, I integrate digital text-mining methods into my research and teaching, blending traditional historical analysis with digital tools.

Before starting my position at DCU, I held positions and visiting fellowships at the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS) at the University of Regensburg, the Department of Contemporary History at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, the Department of History at Columbia University, the Department of History at Trinity College Dublin, and at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. From 2017 to 2018, I was a Fritz Thyssen Foundation Fellow of the Study Group Human Rights in the 20th Century. 

I received my PhD from the University of Vienna in 2018. My PhD-Thesis was awarded the Theodor-Körner-Prize 2017 and the Grete-Mostny-Prize 2019.