Social Transformation and Climate Change
Social Imaginaries/Utopian Thought
Affect cartography of modernity
Visual Culture Studies
Social Transformation and Climate Change
Social Imaginaries/Utopian Thought
Affect cartography
Transformative (Management) Education
Plural Economics
Storytelling/Narrative Economics
1991-1997: Studies German Literature, Philosophy, Political Sciences and Public Law, M.A.
June 2003: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Media and Cultural Studies, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
September 2014: Habilitation / Post-doctoral Thesis, University of St.Gallen
1997-1998: Bookseller, Hamburg
1998-2003: Radio Journalist (Freelancer), Hamburg/Berlin
2003-2005: Research Associate at Institute of Sociology of Religion / Theology, Humboldt-University Berlin; Project "Media Religion" (German Research Foundation)
2005-2006: Project Staff McKinsey Germany, Munich
2006-2007: Site Manager and Coach, Kronos Network (Education and Consulting firm), Wuppertal
2007-2009: Research Associate at Center for Leadership and Values in Society (CLVS), School of Management, University of St.Gall, Project "Public Value Management" (Case Study: Federal Labor Agency Germany)
2009-2010: Representative of Director Leadership Skills in the Contextual Studies, University of St.Gall
2010-2018 : Program Director Leadership Skills
2009-2020: Responsible HSG Lecturer for the Haniel Seminars (till 2018) and the European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities (since 2013)
2010-2012: Project Leader (with Dr. Scott Loren) of Research Project "Aesthetics of Irritation. Auteur Theory, Melodramatic Mode and the Politics of Critical Subjectivity", Cluster "Cultures, Institutions, Markets" (KIM)
2013-2015: Assistent Professor of Culture and Media Studies
2013-2016: Project Coordinator "Humanities' Business. European Perspectives on Management Education"
2015-2020: Academic Director of the Coaching-Programme on Assessment level
2015 - : Associate Professor of Culture and Media Studies (August 2015, appointment “Titularprofessor” plus Senior Lecturer position equals “Associate Professor” in Anglo-American system)
2023 - : Academic Director of the Public Lectures Programme, with Prof. Dr. Daniel Cuonz
2007-2009: Public Value Management in the labour market (Center for Leadership and Values in Society, CLVS-HSG), project partner: Federal Labour Agency, Germany; researcher
2010-2012: Aesthetics of Irritation: Auteur Theory, Melodramatic Mode and the Politics of Critical Subjectivity (with Scott Loren), project was part of the research cluster “KIM - Cultures, Institutions, Markets” at Kulturwissenschaftliche Abteilung; project leader
2013-2016: Humanities' Business. European Perspectives on Management Education (presidency's project to map practices of integrative business education); project coordinator
GfM - Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
Scholarship Bavarian Program for Highly Skilled
Dissertation Grant of Foundation "Education and Science" in the Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany
Meso - Alliance for Systemic Innovation Switzerland, Zurich (Dr. Björn Müller)
2007-2010, 2014-2020 : Coach in the Coaching-Programm of the University of St.Gallen.
May/June 2014: HANIEL Research Fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, (MPP), Copenhagen Business School.
February/March 2017: Guest Professor at the Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University, Venice.