Curriculum Vitae

Short CV

Graduated 1996 in Modern and Contemporary History, Medieval History and Political Science, LMU Munich, PhD 1999 at LMU Munich, 2000-2002 & 2003-2006 Assistant at the Institute for Early Modern History at LMU Munich, 2002-2003 Fellow of the Instituto de Historia of the CSIC in Madrid as a fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, 2001-2009 project leader and 2007-2009 director and deputy spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 573 ‘Pluralisation and Authority in the Early Modern Period’, 2006-2009 Dilthey Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, 2008 habilitation in modern history at LMU and lecturer at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern, 2009 Visiting Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London, 2010-2011 Associate Professor of Latin American History and Cultures and Director of the Center for Global Studies at the Institute of Advanced Study of the University of Bern, 2010 offer of the Chair of Early Modern European History at Humboldt University Berlin (declined), since 2011 Chair of Early Modern History at LMU’s History Department, 2013, 2014, 2019 Director of the History Department, 2014 Visiting Professor at the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), since 2019 Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1369 ‘Cultures of Vigilance’, 2021 to 2023 Dean of LMU’s Faculty of History and Arts, since 2024 depute director of LMU’s History Department

Prizes, honours, memberships

2010 Habilitation Prize of the Association of German Historians, since 2011 co-editor of the journal SAECULUM, 2012-2023 co-spokesperson of the graduate school ProMoHist (together with Margit Szöllösi-Janze), 2012 funding of the Goethe-Institute for the translation of the habilitation thesis and Prize Humanities International for the habilitation thesis, 2013-2015 Chairman of the Early Modern Period Working Group in the Association of German Historians, 2016 elected to the Academia Europaea, since 2019 member of the LMU Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), since 2022 member of the Board of Trustees of the Maximilianeum Foundation, since 2023 co-editor of the Historische Zeitschrift, 2024 elected full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Advisory board responsibilities

1999 advisory board member of the Baden State Museum Karlsruhe and of the State Museum of Technology and Work in Mannheim, Head of the Commission for the Evaluation of Research in medieval and early Modern studies in Lower Saxony for the Scientific Commission Lower Saxony, 2012-2016 Member of the DFG subcommittee Erschließung und Digitalisierung, 2014-2019 Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt, 2015-2023 Member of the Project Committee ‘Early Modern Physicians’ Correspondence’ of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, since 2019 member of the steering committee of the Munich Centre for Global History, 2019-2021 Advisory Board of the Gotha Collection and Research Network of the University of Erfurt, since 2021 Advisory Board of the University Archive of the LMU, since 2022 Member of the Centre for Book Studies of the LMU, also: Advisory Board Member of Network of Early Modern Senses (Nemos), Advisory Board Member of the series Tiempo emulado Historia de América y España, the Journal of Applied History (JOAH), the Administory Journal for the History of Public Administration, the Routledge series Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts and of the Cooperation Network of European Routes of Emperor Charles V