University Education

2016-2018

  • Visiting Graduate Student, Environmental Studies, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

2016

  • Bavarian Higher Education Teaching Certificate (Zertifikat Hochschullehre der Bayerischen Universitäten, Bundeswehr University Munich / Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)

2012

  • State Exam and Diploma Degree in History and Spanish with a minor in Education/Philosophy, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2009

  • Exams in History (Neuere und Neueste Geschichte einschließlich Landesgeschichte) and German (Neuere Deutsche Philologie), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Research and Teaching Positions

Since 11/2014

2010-2014

  • (Substitute) High School Teacher for History, Social Sciences and Spanish, District Government of Düsseldorf, Germany

2005-2011

  • Student Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Scholarships and Awards

2017

  • Reisestipendium, Spanish Embassy, Germany

2017

  • Reisestipendium, German Historical Institute Paris (GHIP), France

2017

  • SHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Scholarship, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, United States

2014

  • "Springorum Denkmünze", RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2009

  • DAAD Scholarship to study History and Art History at the University of Granada, Spain

2008

  • Merit Scholarship, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

2007

  • DAAD Scholarship to attend an Intensive Spanish Language and Culture Course at the University of Alcalá, Spain

 

... and several travel grants

Summer Schools

2019

  • Exercising Modernity –  Pilecki Institute Berlin, Germany & Warsaw, Poland;  City Museum Gdynia, Poland ; Liebling House – The White City Center Tel Aviv, Israel;  Polish Institute Tel Aviv, Israel

2019

  • 9th International Summer Academy. Historicizing. Forms, Practices, Significance, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, Germany

2018

  • Zwölfte Aldersbacher Schreib-Praxis – Institute of Contemporary History, Munich, Germany

2017

  • Holocaust Studies and Education – The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

2017

  • IGCS Summer School "Sustainable Urban Water and Wastewater Management" – Indo-German Centre for Sustainability in Cooperation with Research Institute for Water and Waste Management at RWTH Aachen (FiW) and Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (LIH), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

2016

  • International Doctoral Summer School “Opening the Black Box of Quality: Reflecting on  Scholarly Practice in the Social Sciences and Humanities” – Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Alpen Adria    University, Vienna, Austria

2016

  • ICOHTEC/CIUHCT Summer School "Rethinking Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability: Historical and Contemporary Narratives" – University of Lisbon, Nova University of Lisbon, University of Porto, Portugal

2016

  • "Urban Cultures of Sustainability” – FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies), University of Freiburg, Germany

2016

  • Columbia Alliance (University, École Politechnique, Sciences Po und Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne) Summer School in Science and Policy "Complex Interactions in Sustainabilty"– Reid Hall, Paris, France

2015

  • Ph.D. Course "Latin America in Global Governance" – Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway

Presentations

09/2019

  • Von rauchenden Schloten und brauner Brühe. Mexico City, São Paulo und die Entdeckung urbaner Umweltprobleme als Feld von Entwicklungspolitik – 9. Internationale Sommerakademie Historisierung. Formen, Praktiken, Relevanz, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, Germany 

05/2019

  • La lucha contra la contaminación del aire: Mexico City y la Red Panamericana de Muestreo Normalizado de la Contaminación del Aire  – ADLAF-Nachwuchstagung 2019, University of Hamburg, Germany

03/2019

  • Der Kampf gegen die Luftverschmutzung: Mexico City und seine Teilnahme an den ersten Luftverschmutzungsüberwachungsnetzwerken – Zweite  Nachwuchstagung der Gesellschaft für Überseegeschichte, Schloss Schney, Germany

10/2018

  • Fighting against Urban Air Pollution: Mexico City and its Participation in Early Monitoring Networks –  Transforming Cities: Urbanization and International Development Policies in the Global South in the Twentieth Century, European Academy, Berlin, Germany

12/2017

  • Descubriendo problemas ambientales urbanos como campo  de la política de desarrollo: los casos de la contaminación del aire en la Ciudad de México y de la contaminación del agua  en San Paulo –  XV. Forschungstag "Lateinamerika / Iberische Halbinsel", Ibero-American Research Centre of Leipzig (IARCUL), University of Leipzig, Germany

09/2017

  • São Paulo und die Wasserprobleme. Entwicklungspolitische Lösungsansätze zur Verbesserung der Wasserqualität und -versorgung in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren –  12. Deutscher Lusitanistentag, Sektion 13: Água e Engenharia Hidráulica no Espaço Lusófono, University of Mainz, Germany

09/2017

  • Descobrindo problemas ambientais como campo da política de desenvolvimento: São Paulo, o Banco Mundial e a poluição da água nos anos 1960‐1970 –  12. Deutscher Lusitanistentag, Sektion 14: Encontro de Jovens Investigadores, University of Mainz, Germany

06/2017

  • Urban environmental policy in McNamara’s World Bank between ideal and reality: The case of São Paulo – 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR 2017): Power, Publics, and the United States in the World – Arlington, VA, US [Global Scholars and Diversity Scholarship]

06/2017

  • São Paulo, Stockholm & Washington, D.C.: The World Bank and the Discovery of Urban Environmental Problems as a Field of Development Policy – JFK History Research Colloquium, John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin, Germany (invited)

03/2017

  • Grenzüberschreitende institutionalisierte  (Entwicklungs-)zusammenarbeit im urbanen Umweltmanagement: Erste Maßnahmen gegen Gewässerverschmutzung in São Paulo in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren  –  "Grenzüberschreitende institutionalisierte Zusammenarbeit von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Strukturen und Prozesse" Jahrestagung der AG Internationale Geschichte de VHD, KWI Essen, Germany

11/2016

  • Gewässerverschmutzung in São Paulo: Ursachen - Maßnahmen  -  Folgen –  Centro de Estudos Latino-Americanos e Transatlânticos, University of Mainz, Germany (invited)

09/2016

  • Von Clean Cities zu Green Cities – die Anfänge urbanen Umweltmanagements in den 1970er Jahren [Poster Presentation] – Doktorandenforum,  51. Deutscher Historikertag, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, published on LISA – The science portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation

08/2016

  • Die Entdeckung von Umweltproblemen als Feld von (Stadt-) Entwicklungspolitik. Erste Maßnahmen gegen Luftverschmutzung in Mexico City und Gewässerverschmutzung in São Paulo – Erste Nachwuchstagung der Gesellschaft für Überseegeschichte, Lichtenfels, Germany

07/2016

  • Managing Urban Environmental Problems through Urban Development Projects: Case studies on Water Pollution in São Paulo and Air Pollution in Mexico City – ICOHTEC/CIUHCT Summer School "Rethinking Technology,Innovation, and Sustainability: Historical and Contemporary Narratives", University of Lisbon, Nova University of Lisbon, University of Porto, Portugal 

04/2016

  • Managing Water Problems in São Paulo in the 1960s and 1970s: The Sao Paulo Water Supply and Pollution Control Projects – Workshop: Histories of Development, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

02/2016

  • Von Clean Cities zu Green Cities? ‐ Die Anfänge urbanen Umweltmanagements in den 1970er Jahren – 13. Potsdamer DoktorandInnenforum: Neue Wege in die Zeitgeschichte, Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam, Germany

04/2015

  • Air Pollution in Mexico City in the context of Global Governance – Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway

09/2012

  • Der Aachener Karlspreis und dessen Beitrag zur europäischen Integration – Andrassy University Budapest, Hungary