Research Interests
- Space- and time-theoretical issues
- Urban and social planning and social inequality
- Urban perception, public spaces
- Urban event cultures
- Youth cultures, intergenerationality
- The working world and professional cultures
- Leisure and consumer culture
- Visual culture and mediality
- Theories of everyday life, methodology and methods
Education
- 2020: Adjunct Professor Popular Culture Studies at the University of Zurich
- 2016-2018: Professor ZFH at the Department of Social Work ZHAW
- 2013 Privatdozentin at the University of Zurich; Habilitation thesis: “The city in the city. Space, time and image representations of urban public spaces” (Venia Legendi: 23 July 2013)
- 2007–2008 Habilitation grant, University of Zurich (Research Fund for Junior Scholars)
- 2004 PhD at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich
- 2002 Research stay at the University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, supervised by Prof. A. Abbott and Prof. D. Levine (Urban Research and Cultural Theories)
- 1991–1998 Cultural Studies and History at the University of Zurich, with the focus on Social History, City and Living, Youth Culture; Master’s thesis supervised by Prof. Ueli Gyr on the theme of the Techno Scene in Zürich
- 1981–1987 Studied Architecture at the ETH Zürich, Diploma with a focus on Urban Development.
Work Experience
- From 2019: Project Manager and Lecturer at the Institute of Childhood, Youth and Family, Department of Social Work ZHAW
- 2013-2018: Project Manager at the Office of Research and Development/IVGT, Department of Social Work ZHAW
- 2010–2015 Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the Chair of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich
- 2010 Guest Professor at the Institute of Urbanism Grenoble (University Pierre Mendès)
- 2001–2010 Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich
- 2007–2008: Research Fellow at the Università di Milano Bicocca (2007), Research Fellow at the EHESS, Centre d’étude des mouvements sociaux [Centre for the Study of Social Movement] in Paris (2008)
- 2004 Erasmus guest lecturer at the University of Turku on the theme: Cultural studies’ approach to the city and urban research
- 2004 Erasmus guest lecturer at the University of Hamburg on the theme: Cultural Studies into Time Research
- 1994–2001 Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Popular Culture Studies at the University of Zurich
- 1994–1998 Administrator in the Regional Planning Office of the Canton of Zürich
- 1988–1992 Office for Architecture and Cityscape in the Building Department of the City of Zürich
Publications and teaching experience
See CV in German