April 2025 - present PhD by Published Work, London College of Fashion, UK

Mar 1996 - Jul 2001 Fashion Design, University of Applied Sciences HAW Hamburg, Diplom Modedesigner, 'Excellence'

Oct 1993 - Feb 1996 Law, Georg-August University Goettingen

Further Education:

Oct  2025 Carbon Literacy Training, Climate Hub Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

Feb 2021 Embedding Sustainability into the Curriculum, SEDA accredited course

Jun 2018 Circular Economy Teaching & Learning, Higher Education workshop, Ellen MacArthur Foundation London

Oct 2017 Higher Education Didactics, course Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Mar + May 2017 Design Thinking, workshop I + II Hamburg Kreativgesellschaft

Feb 2017 Social Media Manager, certificate Social Media Akademie Mannheim

Dec 2013 Storytelling, international workshop NORDWINDfestival Hamburg

Apr 1996 English, foreign language certificate Georg-August University Goettingen

Apr 2026 Shortlisted for Researcher of the Year, Birmingham City University, UK

Feb 2026 Greatest of All Time Teacher Award, Falmouth University, UK

Nov 2025 Carbon Literacy Training certificate, Stratford Climate Hub, UK

Apr 2024 Collaborative KTP funding (£220.000), Innovate UK

Apr 2024 Nomination for Researcher of the Year, Birmingham City University

Mar 2023 RAAD research funding for Designing for a Closed Fashion Loop – A Methodological Guide and Tool

Aug 2022 Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK

Jan 2022 RAAD research funding for Material Matters, Birmingham City University

May 2021 Nomination for Changemakers Prize, British Fashion Council

May 2021 Nomination as Inspirational Teacher of the Year, Birmingham City University

Feb 2021 Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK

Oct 2018 otherways[project] selected for exhibition for German Federal Award Bundespreis Ecodesign, Kulturforum Berlin

Mar 2018 3rd place at Circular Fashion Games Eindhoven/Amsterdam

 
Feb 2005 2nd place at competition WeddingDress#1 Berlin

Jan + Aug 2002 scholarship for Les Jeunes Créateurs, Who's Next Paris

Jan 2001 Selected for exhibiton of Best Diplomas of 2000 at HAW Hamburg

Apr 1999 1st place at competition Personnel Uniforms Karstadt Sport Hamburg

Fellow of The RSA, Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce UK

Member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion

Member of the Systemic Design Association

Member of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network