How Culture Works in Practice

I have been working in international research and consultancy projects in culture and related fields since 2006. Before starting my career as an independent researcher and evaluator, I spent more than a decade working for EDUCULT - Institute of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management. I have expertise in policy- and strategy-oriented research. 

In 2017 I graduated with a PhD (distinction) in Cultural Institution Studies from the University of Music and Performing Arts (mdw) Vienna. Supervised by Prof. Tasos Zembylas, I researched Cultural Governance in cities. I received the Award of Excellence by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. In 2019 I was awarded with the Herta and Kurt Blaukopf Award for excellent dissertations at the mdw. The Master studies at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick shaped my international perspective. In 2020, I teach cultural policy, cultural organisation and audience studies at the Zeppelin-University Friedrichshafen, where I am also working with the research cluster on Arts Production and Cultural Policy in Transformation (ACPT).

I have been a member of the board of the Association for Cultural Management since 2016, where I am specifically concerned with the networking of early career researchers and PhD students. I am also a board member at  EDUCULT.  In 2019, I have been appointed member of the Expert Council on Cultural Diversity of the Austrian UNESCO-Commission. 

​I live and work in Vienna, together with my husband and our two children. I love their questions although I often fail to answer them. Vienna and its multifaceted past and present are a huge inspiration to my work. In particular, I love the coffee houses - drinking a Melange, listening to people talking in different languages, writing, and thinking. I love to travel to other places and meet new people.