Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
I currently work in higher education administration and research project coordination, serving as the Secretary of Studies and Assistant to the Director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck. My 5+ years of experience in academia also include working as a research and teaching assistant. While I am currently engaged in the clinical and medical sciences, my academic foundation is rooted in the social and political sciences, where I hold a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in sociology, focusing on critical social and political theory. I also have 10+ years of experience in advocacy work, including critical research and reporting, political organizing and networking, guest lecturing, advising, project supervision, communication, and media intervention. My previous writings include journalistic texts and commentaries for Al Jazeera, Jacobin magazine, and the Transnational Institute as well as academic reviews that have appeared in Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, and Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science.
Assistant to the Director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck, led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Irene Virgolini. Tasks/responsibilities revolve primarily around administrative support (proofreading, editing, coordinating, etc.) of ongoing clinical research activities, academic studies, and publication projects.
Freelance writer, researcher, and translator; with journalistic and academic publications and contributions for Jacobin Magazine, the New Left Review (Sidecar), Al Jazeera, the Transnational Institute, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, and Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, among others.
Tasks/responsibilities include assisting the management with administrative and maintenance work; assisting colleagues in providing social counseling services; supporting the organization’s projects, including the Library for Integration and Migration (BIM), the documentary archive for migration in Tyrol (DAM), and the service and monitoring center against racism and discrimination in Tyrol (ARAtirol).
Graduate teaching assistant (tutor) on Introduction to Sociology (Sociological Perspectives and Approaches), led by Asst.-Prof. Dr. Bettina Mahlert of the Department of Sociology (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences) of the Universität Innsbruck.
Conference staff member tasked with assisting with the organization and flow of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2022 that was held at the University of Innsbruck. Organized by the Department of Political Science.
Graduate student assistant in research and administration with the University of Innsbruck's scientific networks department.
Paid summer internship at Ötztaler Museen (museum collective of the Ötztal valley, based in Längenfeld, Austria) tasked with inventory and archival work, documentation of cultural history, and other miscellaneous administrative tasks.