CV

The most important steps of my academic journey are listed below. A more complete academic CV can be found here .

Positions

2025–today: Member of the "Young Academy" of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2024–2025: Interim chair (50%), replacing Prof. Loren Stuckenbruck, University of Munich
2024–today: Lecturer for New Testament Studies, University of Basel
2023–today: Head of the international research group "Focalization in Early Christian Texts", University of Munich
2022: Replacement for Prof. Moisés Mayordomo, University of Basel
2020–2023: Postdoc, University of Basel
2018–2020: Postdoc, University of Munich
2014–2018: Research fellow, Universität Zürich

2024: Habilitation, University of Basel
2018: Doctorate, University of Zurich (summa cum laude)
2013: Master of Letters in Biblical Languages and Literature, University of St Andrews
2012: Bachelor of Arts in Theology, Gießen
2009: Abitur, Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Ulm-Wiblingen

2024: "Dewetteaneum," Award of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Basel for the best academic work of the year
2022: Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
2018: Mercator Award of the Humanities and Social Sciences

2025: Scholarship of the Bavarian Academy of Sciencs and Humanities (€ 36.000 for three years + three more years after evaluation)
2024: Funds of the German Excellence Stratgy for the interdisciplinary conference "AI and Human Storytellers: A Comparative Approach" mit Nina Beguš, UC Berkeley (€ 12.500)
2022: Research grant of the Elite Bavaria Network for a research group (€ 1,4 million)
2021: Research Fund for Excellent Junior Researchers, Universität Basel (CHF 79.951)
2021: Research grant from the cogito foundation for my interdisciplinary project "Bayes and Bible" (CHF 59.474)
2018: Early Postdoc.Mobility Stipendium, SNF (CHF 74.240)
2017: Candoc Research Grant of the University of Zurich (CHF 28.773)
2015-2017: GRC Peer Mentoring Grants (ca. CHF 26.000)
2017: UZH Graduate Campus Short Grant for an interdisciplinary project on description and interpretation(CHF 3.600)
2014: SNF project grant for "Narrative Strukturen in den Briefen des Paulus?" (CHF 175.008; with Jörg Frey)
2010-2014: Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2026: Narrative Perspective in Early Christian Stories. WUNT I. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Habilitation)
2025: Empire Criticism: New Methodological Approaches. Herausgegeben. WUNT I. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (appears in October).
2024: Paul the Storyteller: A Narratological Approach. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
2022: The Apostle and the Empire: Paul's Implicit and Explicit Criticism of Rome. With a preface by John M. G. Barclay. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
2020: Paulus als Erzähler? Eine narratologische Perspektive auf die Paulusbriefe. BZNW 237. Berlin: de Gruyter. Open access: https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/567277 (Dissertation)
2017: Paul's Triumph: Reassessing 2 Corinthians 2:14 in Its Literary and Historical Context. Biblical Tools and Studies 27. Leuven: Peeters.
2016: God and the Faithfulness of Paul: A Critical Examination of the Pauline Theology of N. T. Wright. Herausgegeben mit J. Thomas Hewitt and Michael F. Bird. WUNT II 413. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2nd ed.: Minneapolis: Fortress 2017.
2015: Hidden Criticism? Methodology and Plausibility of the Search for a Counter-Imperial Subtext in Paul. WUNT II 392. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. Open access: https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/hidden-criticism-9783161537967 2nd ed.: Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017.