I am a bioarchaeologist with a background in Archaeology and Human Osteology. I obtained my BA in Classical Archaeology from the University of Vienna and an MSc in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology from the University of Sheffield before completing my PhD at the Free University of Berlin with research stays at several institutions. My doctoral research investigated changes in diet, mobility, and community formation in north-western Italy during the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, integrating isotope analysis with osteological, genetic, and archaeological data. I have also worked as an archaeologist and osteologist on excavations across Europe, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.

I joined the EUROpest project as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in the Computational Pathogenomics research group led by Alexander Herbig. Within the project, my work includes the collection and management of osteological and palaeopathological data, the maintenance of an integrated database combining pathogen DNA, osteological, and archaeological datasets, and the coordination of sampling.