Volunteering

Voluntary Projects and Community Engagement

• since 2021 member of LAMS – Landesmittelbau Sachsen
• since 2018 museum tours and virtual excursions for Stiftung Bürger für Leipzig
• since 2015 elected spokesperson of the committee of alumni of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• since 2014 co-founder and member of „MULE – Mittelbauinitiative der Universität Leipzig„, an initiative to foster the position of untenured academic stuff (responsible for PR and events); 2020-2024 one of four elected spokespersons, see e.g. the blog entry Neue Personalkategorien im Mittelbau – ein Blick in den sächsischen Koalitionsvertrag, with Stefanie Wiemer, in: alma meta 2020, open access and https://twitter.com/mittelbaule
• since 2011 singer in the Church choir of St. Peter, Leipzig (performing Bach, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and more)
• 2008-2015 working in the „Leipzig PhD Initiative“ and the „PhD Council“ PromovierendenRat (ProRat), organizing and moderating the Leipzig PhD lecture series (six events per year), editor of the open access journal „Arbeitstitel. Forum für Leipziger Promovierende„, (until 2018):
  • Grußwort zum zehnjährigen Bestehen, in: Arbeitstitel 7.1 (2019), 2, DOI: https://doi.org/10.36258/arbeitstitel.v7i1.3304.
  • Editorial Konflikte und Auseinandersetzungen – Conflicts and Struggles, in: Arbeitstitel 5.2 (2013), DOI: https://doi.org/10.36258/aflp.v5i2.3263 .
  • Editorial Verborgenes Wissen – Hidden Knowledge, with Susanne Bunzel, in: Arbeitstitel 5.1 (2013), DOI: https://doi.org/10.36258/aflp.v5i1.3254 .
  • Editorial Kontaktzonen – Schnittstellen der Adaption und Verweigerung, in: Arbeittitel 2.2(2010), DOI: https://doi.org/10.36258/aflp.v2i2.3211 .
  • Editorial Wandel, Evolution, Fortschritt – Beschreibung, Bewertung und Steuerung von Prozessen in Natur, Technik, Kultur und Gesellschaft, with Felix Frey/Christian Fröhlich/Stephanie Garling/Enrico Thomas, in: Arbeitstitel 1.1. (2009), DOI: https://doi.org/10.36258/aflp.v1i1.3180 .
• 2006‑2009 manager of the primary education project „Schule mit Zukunft“ (Future for Schools) funded by Dr. Arend Oetker from the Stifterverband for the German Sciences and ALISA gem. e.V., a project for the 600th anniversary of the University of Leipzig in 2009
• 2005‑2009 spokesperson for the Leipziger Stipendiatennetzwerk (Leipzig Network of Student and PhD fellows) with several community engagement projects such as the „StattGarten“ created in 2007 and a fundraising campaign to restore the statue of Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in front of St. Thomas Church which was destroyed by the Nazis; organization of a great concert of French composers in March 2006 with more than 500 guests