Position
Associate Researcher of the Centre d’Histoire des Techniques, Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (IHMC), CNRS, ENS, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
Education
2016 | PhD in History of Technology and Cultural Science, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Humboldt University of Berlin:
Image history and history of knowledge of the car accident
Supervised by Prof. Anne-Françoise Garçon, (France) and Prof. Hartmut Böhme (Germany).
2009 | M.A. in Cultural Science, Political Science and Gender Studies, Humboldt University and Free University of Berlin, Germany:
Car Crash Culture – Der Autounfall und die Transformation des automobilen Versprechens
Supervised by Prof. Hartmut Böhme and Prof. Christian Kassung, Institute for Cultural Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Research fields
• Cultural history of the automobile
• Technical and cultural history of autonomous driving
• Imaginary of the car accident
Research projects
2017-2022 | From Automated to Autonomous Driving. A Transnational research history on Pioneers, Artifacts and Technological Change in the United States, Japan and Europe (1950-2000)
Author of the book project, commissioned by the Ministry of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany.
2013-2017 | The Imaginary of the Train among Decision Makers and Train Users.
Contract researcher in the french team of the project (ICT laboratory, Université Paris Diderot and P2M).
Commissioned by the Mobile Lives Forum (SNCF), France.
2015 | Degendering the driver? Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility and Gender
Research Assistant (15.1.-30.6.2015) of Prof. Jutta Weber, University of Paderborn, Institut für Medienwissenschaften / Project funded by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Accomplished tasks and results:
Management of a publication project (editorial process):
“Degendering the driver”: Special issue of Transfers – Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies.
Milestones:
– Bibliographical research (data bases): Gender and automobile (state of the art)
– Call for papers
– Recruitment of 7 authors
– Communication with the authors and the journal editors
– Organisation of a peer review
– Editing the introduction
All these tasks had been done in close cooperation with Prof. Jutta Weber.
2013-2014 | Autonomous driving on the roads of the future
Fellow of the project Villa Ladenburg, funded by the Daimler und Benz Stiftung, Germany.
Accomplished tasks and results:
Objective
1. How has the utopia of automated driving developed and changed over time?
a. Which actors played/play a role?
b. In what context was automation placed?
2. How were images of automated driving conveyed in the media?
a. What is the relationship between images and the technological development of automated driving?
3. How synchronous or asynchronous are the technological development and the history of the representation of automated driving?
4. What social, cultural and economic conditions have played a role in the utopia of automated driving ?
5. How do the original promise of automobility with the leitmotif of self-control and automated driving fit together?
a. How do ideas of the automobile and car use change in connection with automated driving?
b. What images and terms are used and what function do they have?
6. Which examples from technological developments in which tasks were automated by humans are suitable for describing the change from human-controlled to automatically controlled vehicles?
a. What are the parallels?
b. Where are there differences and how are these differences justified?
Editorial responsibilities
2011-2017: Member of the editorial board, media assistant and reviewer of TRANSFERS, Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/trans/