• Since 12/2020 Akademischer Rat (lecturer/assistant professor) at the Institute of Jewish and Religious Studies (Institutum Judaicum/Seminar für Religionswissenschaft und Judaistik), Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany).
• 2024–2025 Albert J. Wood Fellow, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (academic year): Jews and Health 
• 2013–2020 Research Associate (Post-doc), DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ (Research), Professur für antike Wissensgeschichte und Institut für Judaistik/ Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World and Institute of Jewish Studies (Teaching), Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2017–2018 Rothfeld Research Fellow, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (fall term): Nature between Science and Religion: Jewish Culture and the Natural World.
• 2016–2017 Harry Starr Research Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (spring/summer term).
• 2011–2013 Research Associate (Research and Teaching), DFG-funded research project “Work and Life of the rabbi and philosopher Simha (Simone) Luzzatto (1583? – 1663)“, Seminar für Judaistik/Jüdische Studien, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

• 2013 Dr. Phil./Ph.D. (summa cum laude) Seminar für Judaistik/Jüdische Studien//Graduate School „Society and Culture in Motion“, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).
• 2006 MA (magna cum laude/major: Jewish Studies/minors: German Language and Literature, Political Science), Institut für Jüdische Studien, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf and Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg.
• 2004/2005, Studies of Polish language and culture (intensive program), Jagiellonen-University Kraków (Poland).
• 2002/2003, year-long study program in Jewish Studies (Talmud/ Rabbinics/ Hebrew Literature/ Jewish History and Thought) and Israeli History, Culture and Society, including intensive language course (Ulpan) for Hebrew, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel).

• History, literature and culture of ancient to medieval Judaism
• Rabbinic/Talmudic texts (literary, anthropological and sociocultural approaches)
• History of medicine, sciences and knowledge in premodern Judaism, especially in (late) antiquity and medieval time
• Midrash and Jewish literary developments in the early Islamicate period
• Contemporary Jewish religious identity, literatures and popular cultures (Israeli/ American Jewish literature, cinema, television, music and everyday culture)
• Trajectories of Jewish traditions, practices, motifs and symbols from ancient into modern/contemporary cultures

Books (monographs and edited volumes)

• Jewish Medical Knowledge and Practice in its Ancient and Late Antique Contexts. Ancient Cultures of Sciences and Knowledge (ASK) 2. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2025 (editor, in preparation)
• Sourcebook of Medical Knowledge in Talmudic Texts (Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, Bavli). First Volume: The Medical Clusters. Annotated, He- brew/Aramaic-English. Sourcebooks of Ancient Sciences Series. Mohr Siebeck, 2025, with Markham J. Geller et al. (author/editor/translator, in preparation)
• `Derekh Eretz im Tora – Seder Eliyahu Zuta als ethisch- religiöser Diskurs der gaonäischen Zeit (Seder Eliyahu Zuta as ethical and religious discourse in Geonic time). TSAJ Series.Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. (author, in press)
• Female Bodies and Female Practitioners in the Medical Traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean World. Ancient Cultures of Sciences and Knolwedge (ASK) 2. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. (editor)
• Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfers of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions. SFB 980-Series “Episteme in Bewegung” 8. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021. (editor)
• Collecting Recipes. Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue. Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter, 2017; co- edited with M. Martelli. (editor)

Articles and Chapters (in Peer-Reviewed Publications)

• “In order not to become dangerously ill - Rabbinic ecologies of healing and late antique knowledge production,” in Ecologies of Healing. Edited by Zubin Mistry and Petros Bouras-Vallianatos; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. (accepted)
• “Competition and Compassion: Medical Expertise among Rabbis, Patients and Healing Experts in Late Antiquity,” in A Cry for Help: Ancient Perspectives on Disease and Healing in Dialogue and Conflict; Edited by Maria Rescio and Joseph Verheyden; Leuven: Peeters, 2025. (accepted)
• “A Rabbinic Epistemic Genre: Creating Knowledge Through Lists and Catalogues,” in Synopses and Lists. Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World. Edited by Teresa Bernheimer and Ronny Vollandt. Cambridge University Press, Open Edition, 2023, 23-61.
• “The Shoteh in Rabbinic Sources. Between Intellectual Disability and Mental Illness?,” in ‘Madness’ in the Ancient World: Innate or Acquired? From Theoretical Concepts to Daily Life. Edited by Christian Laes and Irina Metzler; ASH 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, 189-228.
• “Re-reading Gynaecology in the Ancient World – a Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Survey,” in Female Bodies and Female Practitioners. Gynaecology, Women’s Bodies, and Expertise in the Ancient to Medieval Mediterranean and Middle East. Edited by Lennart Lehmhaus. ASK series 2. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023, pp. 3-83.
• “Biting, Rubbing, Running, Burning: Recipe(s) for the “Mad Dog” Illness in Talmudic Texts”, Recipe-Forum, Jewish Quarterly Review 103,4 (2023): 552-560.
• “Talmudic Torment: Late Antique Jewish Texts on Pain and Suffering Between Medicine, Martyrdom, and Askesis,” Journal of Early Christian History 9,2 (2022): 52–79.
• “Lore and Order? – Rabbinic Lists and Epistemology,” in Forms of List-Making:  Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration. Edited by Anne Rüggemeier et al.; New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2022, pp. 53–80.
• “Rabbinische Resilienz und resiliente Rabbinen? Strategien des Umgangs mit Krankheit, Krisen und Katastrophen in der talmudischen Literatur der Spätantike,“ in Resilienznarrative im Alten Testament. Edited by Judith Gärtner and Barbara Schmitz; Forschungen zum Alten Testament (FAT I) 156; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022, pp. 355–384.
• “Rabbinic Perceptions and Representations of Pain and Suffering,” in Pain and Its Representation in Biblical, Post-Biblical, and Other Texts of the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. FAT II 130. Edited by Michaela Bauks and Saul Olyan; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021, pp. 211–238.
• “Defining or defying Jewish medicine: old problems and new questions,” in Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions. Edited by Lennart Lehmhaus; SFB 980-Series “Episteme in Bewegung” 8. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021, pp. 3–26.
• “Moral Exegesis? – Hermeneutic Approaches and Exegetical Strategies in Seder Eliyahu (Zuta),” in Representing Jewish Thought. Studies in Honour of Ada Rappoport- Albert. Edited by Agata Paluch, in collaboration with Lukas Mühlethaler; Leiden: Brill, 2021, pp. 156–185.
• “Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition –medical expertise and knowledge of the body among rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity,” in Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Edited by Tanja Pommerening et al.; Bielefeld: transcript, 2018, pp. 123–166.
• “`Hidden transcripts´ in Late Midrash Made Visible. Hermeneutical and Literary Processes of Borrowing,” in Exegetical Crossroads–Understanding Scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Premodern Orient. Edited by Regina Grundmann et al.; Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2017, pp. 199-242.
• “Beyond Dreckapotheke, Between Facts and Feces: Talmudic Recipes and Therapies in Context,” in Collecting Recipes. Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue. Edited by Lennart Lehmhaus and Matteo Martelli. Berlin/ Boston: de Gruyter, 2017, pp. 221-254.
• “Disability in Rabbinic Jewish Sources,” in Disability in Antiquity. Routledge Series Rewriting Antiquity. Edited by Christian Laes. New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 434–452 (with Julia Watts-Belser)
• “Blessed be He – benedictions, prayers, and narrative in the garb of late Midrashic traditions,“ in "It's Better to Hear the Rebuke of the Wise Than the Song of Fools" (Qoh 7:5): Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Volume 6. Edited by Rivka Ulmer and David W. Nelson. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015, pp. 107-151.
• “Listenwissenschaft and the encyclopedic hermeneutics of knowledge in Talmud and Midrash,” in In the Wake of the Compendia: Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia. Edited by J. Cale Johnson. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2015, pp. 59-101.
• “`Were not understanding and knowledge given to you from Heaven?´ Minimal Judaism and the Unlearned “Other” in Seder Eliyahu Zuta,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 19, 3 (2012): 230-258.

Encyclopaedia Entries

• “Wahnsinn (jüdisch),” in Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum (RAC). (accepted)
• “Medicine,“ and “Illness,” in Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations; edited by Walter Homolka, Rainer Kampling, Amy-Jill Levine, Christoph Markschies, Peter Schäfer and Martin Thurner; Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. (in preparation)
• “Medicine and Healing | Judaism | Rabbinic Judaism,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR), Volume 18. Edited by Barry Dov Walfish et al.; Boston/Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020.