From May 2023 to April 2026, I was a research associate at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, where I taught interface technologies in the sub-course Design of Interactive Media.

Since May 2022, I have also been a senior research associate in the interdisciplinary, cross-university research project Robotic Operations – Man and Machine in the Surgical Network, funded by the RheinEnergie Foundation. Together with physicians at the University Hospital of Cologne, I investigate the spatial, technical, and ergonomic conditions and requirements for surgeons and other OR staff when using surgical assistant robots in operations. As a senior project member, I am responsible for the study design, technical implementation, and evaluation of the results.

In May 2022, I completed my master’s degree at the Cologne International School of Design with my thesis A City on Demand. In this thesis, I examine how on-demand service companies are profoundly transforming urban space. Based on design-ethnographic analyses, I explore new forms of algorithmic organization, control, and surveillance of urban labor and mobility, and point to the precarious living and working conditions of solo self-employed platform workers. Building on this, I sketch the contours of an emerging “city on demand.”

Between 2014 and 2019, I completed the bachelor’s program Integrated Design, which I finished with my thesis Screen Spaces. This thesis was an interdisciplinary cooperation project between University Hospital Cologne and the Cologne International School of Design at TH Köln. In it, I investigate the interplay of image, space, and action in robot-guided operations within the field of design theory and research, and develop design perspectives on the relationship between design and medicine.