I joined the University of Glasgow in 2025. Before I was LSE Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE (London School of Economics) from 2022 to 2025, following a stay as Visiting Scholar at the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, USA (2022). 

I hold a Ph.D. in Media and Communcation Studies from Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden (2021). Prior to that I acquired B.A. and M.Sc. degrees at the universities of Hamburg, Germany, Helsinki, Finland, and Lund, Sweden.

I joined the School of Critical Studies as a Lecturer in Communications in August 2025. I am also a Visiting Fellow at the LSE's Department of Media and Communications. 

My research practice comprises multiple projects on the history and present of borders and media technologies. My work explores the long temporalities of media, communication and technology in migration and borders, seeking to advance critiques of increasingly digital and automated border regimes.

I am completing my first monograph entitled Encampment. A media history of control and humanitarianism, under contract with University of Illinois Press. The book draws on archival material from German refugee camps since 1945 and offers a history of media and communications in the space and institution of the camp at the onset of the modern Western refugee regime. Besides that, I am currently working on a range of further projects on histories of smartness and automation in the cases of Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York, the history of DNA testing for kinship surveillance of migrants, or histories of benefits administration for Huguenot refugees in 1600s England. 

Ongoing other projects:

- with LSE and NYU: AI Rationales: How technologists, policy makers and lawyers imagine artificial intelligence for immigration in London and New York City (funded by LSE-NYU seed fund)

- with COST action "DATAMIG": edited volume on keywords of datafication and migration 

Prior publications

I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD researchers in the broad intersection of media and communication studies, STS, and critical border and migration studies. 

I currently teach on the M.Sc. Global Communications, covering topics such as media and communcation theory, media and migration, media history, and critical theory and methods. 

I have broader teaching experience across media and communication studies, having taught at LSE, NYU, and Södertörn University.