I’m a sociologist. Currently I’m Marie Curie Fellow at Columbia University, New York and member of the research council of the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt working on a new project on Negative Emission Technologies.

My work brings together Science and Technology Studies and critical theories to analyze topics such as bio- and technopolitics, capital, and climate. In previous projects I looked at disaster preparedness and critical infrastructures, microbes and symbio-socialities, stranded assets and (financial) climate risks. 

My second book on the rise, fall, and afterlives of Fossil Modernity will be published in German with Suhrkamp in summer 2026 and in English with Zone/Princeton University Press.

I studied Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the New School for Social Research, New York. After completing my PhD in Frankfurt (2017), I transitioned to the Justus-Liebig University Gießen (2018-2024). I have been a Visiting Scholar at the New School (2013) and the London School of Economics (2022). I held Fellowships at the Max-Weber-Center, Erfurt (2018, 2024-2025), and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2022-203).

I received funding by the Heinrich-Böll Foundation, the German National Academic Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, the German Research Foundation, and the European Research Council. I have published a monograph and numerous articles in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, EPD: Society and Space, Economy and Society, European Journal of Social Theory, Security Dialogue, Social Studies of Science, and Sociological Review.