| 2024 “Melanin Matters” project week on the significance of skin tones in Lagos, Nigeria: Conception, organization and moderation of events at the Goethe-Institut in Lagos, Nigeria. The project week included a one-day conference, a Photography workshop, a panel discussion, a film screening and a workshop for women. The project week was a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut Lagos, the Nlele Institute for Photography (Lagos) and the SFB1482 Human Differentiation |
| Since 09/2021 PhD project on skin whitening practices and the meanings of skin tones in Nigeria and Germany |
| Since 09/2021 Research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 1482 Human Differentiation at JGU Mainz in the subproject Coloristic Human Differentiation/Melanin Matters: Skin tone politics in Nigeria and beyond with Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings |
| 2018 – 2021 Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on medical anthropology and psychological anthropology. Title of the final thesis: Facing the gluten hurdle: Living with a contested illness in France |
| 2017 – 2018 & 2019 – 2020 Student assistant at the Institute of Public Health at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| 2019 – 2021 Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation |
| 2018 – 2019 Deutschlandstipendium of the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2016 – 2018 Completing bachelor courses in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy and Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2012 – 2016 Bachelor’s degree in business administration at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, including an exchange semester at the University of Lund, Sweden, and an internship at L’Oréal Paris Switzerland in Geneva |
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