I am a historian of the early modern global world with an interest in the history of information. After studies in Basel and Munich, I finished my PhD in Modern History at the University of St Andrews in 2022. My dissertation was funded by the AHRC and traced the reuse of books and manuscripts among early modern German academics. During my doctoral studies, I was a visiting fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and Harvard University.

One of my principal interests is the reuse and repurposing of early modern notebooks. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, I had the chance to study the “paper tools” of the Scottish minister and mathematician Colin Campbell of Achnaba (1644–1726), who repurposed the paper of the letters he received, while holding an intermediary position in Scotland’s fractured confessional culture after 1689. Together with Richard Oosterhoff (Edinburgh), I organised the conference Brokering the Enlightenment: Scotland and the World at IASH in Edinburgh in 2023.

My new research traces Swiss information workers in colonial Britain. At the University of Basel, I am a postdoctoral researcher on the SNSF-funded project SwissBritNet: Swiss-British cultural exchange and knowledge networks 1600-1780. My project focuses on the information labour of Swiss ministers in the long eighteenth century who did not find work in the Old Swiss Confederacy and moved to England to take up posts as chaplains, secretaries, librarians, tutors or translators. The chaplains acted as transnational go-betweens at the intersection of confessional, political and intellectual networks of information and became heavily involved in colonial contexts. In collaboration with the République des Lettres project at the University of Bern, I am preparing a data edition of the chaplains’ correspondence. Together with Ina Habermann, Stefanie Heeg and Regula Hohl-Trillini (all based in Basel), I curated the exibition London Calling: Schweizerisch-britischer Kulturaustausch, 1580–1780 (February to May 2026) at Basel University Library.

At St Andrews and Basel, I have taught BA and MA courses on early modern history, the history of information and the history of the British Empire. Together with Anja-Silvia Goeing (Harvard, Munich) and Yuval Givon (Jerusalem), I organise a regular Zoom seminar. Our Global Information History Workshop meets once a month to hear work-in-progress papers and to discuss readings on the history of information. From 2021 to 2025, I was a contributing editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog published by University of Pennsylvania Press.