I am a PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck. I completed my Teachers Training diploma in Geography and Sports. My research focuses on pupils and their practices at the institution school as well as in the digital space. In my research I apply qualitative and digital methods. Due to my numerous part-time jobs in addition to my education, I have already had many experiences with young people and “emerging adults”. I can now apply this knowledge to my research.

To deal with the topic of social interaction in cON/FFlating spaces is very fulfilling for me. Especially in a time with increasing digitalization, I am very interested in following and researching the effects and consequences of this trend. Therefore my work focuses on individuals, especially young people negotiating difference and sameness in online and offline spaces. My ambition is to look beyond the typical stages of life (school, tertiary education, work life) to the transition periods in-between and their effects on identity work. 

As a native Tyrolean and sports student I am very attached to the spirit of sport. If sport has taught me anything over the years, it is to push forward to reach your goals and not to deviate from them as soon as difficulties appear. As Michelangelo (1478) once said: “The greatest danger for most people is not that their goal is too high and they might miss it, but that it is too low and they will reach it.” This is the wisdom that I always keep in mind in the course of my research objectives.