Throughout my career, I benefited from the generosity of colleagues who shared their knowledge and experience. That generosity shaped how I work. It’s something I try to return through formal teaching, thesis supervision, or an informal conversation over coffee. Mentorship is one of the most direct ways to strengthen our profession.
Advocacy For Choosing GLAM Careers
Over the years, I met with students and researchers exploring career options — often people with deep subject expertise who had not considered working in galleries, libraries, archives, or museums. In those conversations, I try to show what our professional ecosystem enables: meaningful work where knowledge and public service meet. I see these exchanges as advocacy for the profession and the people considering it.
Teaching Aspiring Professionals
My commitment to knowledge as a common good extends to shaping the next generation of library professionals. As a sessional instructor in LIS programs at HTWK Leipzig and HföD Munich, I teach legacy and emerging topics — Citizen Science, Digital Preservation, AI Literacy, Prompt Engineering — to future librarians and archivists.
Supervision Of Theses
I currently co-supervise a Master’s thesis at HTWK Leipzig on the impact of LLM-based AI on library search.