Award / Third-Party Funding / Grants

2017
Awarded the Kurt Bittel Prize for South German Archaeology by the City of Heidenheim an der Brenz, endowed with €5,500 (award ceremony on 17 November 2017)

DFG Project
June 2025 – May 2028
Three-year project no. 555215875, “From Ornaments to Ecosystems: Investigating Hominin–Mammoth Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of the Swabian Jura (Southern Germany)”, jointly with PD Dr. Dorothée Drucker and PD Dr. Britt Starkovich

DAAD PROCOPE
2024–2025
“More than Beauty & More than Beads: The Legacy of Upper Palaeolithic Ornamentation”. Cooperation partner in France: Dr. Marian Vanhaeren, CNRS, PACEA, University of Bordeaux, awarded with distinction by the DAAD in 2026

Fritz Thyssen Foundation
2023
International conference (4–6 October 2023), “Ritual in Human Evolution – Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, jointly with Rimtautas Dapschauskas, M.A. 

CIVIS Call 2 – Short-Term Mobility / Intensive Programs
CIVIS Summer School 2022
CIVIS Schools (IP: CS): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender Archaeology, jointly with PD Dr. Dorothée Drucker and Dr. Marta Díaz Zorita Bonilla; 6 days, 35 students from 6 partner universities 

DFG Scientific Network (Principal Investigator)
November 2020 – November 2022
DFG scientific network “Commission Modified Bone & Shell of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) – Bâtons percés (Volume XVI)”, project no. 454029596 

DAAD
October 2013
Award of a DAAD short-term lectureship at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
 

GfU Blaubeuren
2023
Workshop for the special exhibition “URMU – Modern Art Meets Ice Age Archaeology”, funded by the Society for Prehistory Blaubeuren and the Friends of the Prehistoric Museum Association (GfU) 

Baden-Württemberg Foundation
2021–2022
Travelling exhibition funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, University of Tübingen, Weltkultursprung, Eiszeitkunstverein im Lonetal e.V., Society for Prehistory and Friends of the Prehistoric Museum Association Blaubeuren, Museum Society Schelklingen e.V., City of Ulm, District of Heidenheim, Alb-Donau District. Applicant: Chair of the Steering Committee Weltkultursprung, jointly with Sibylle Wolf 

Doctoral Fellowship
2010–2013
Doctoral fellowship within the UNESCO research project “Caves of the Swabian Jura”, Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Dissertation topic: “Ivory Working in the Swabian Aurignacian” 

Completion Grant
November 2006 – April 2007
Completion grant of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz for scientific or artistic final theses