Born in 1975; 1999: graduated at the University of Bucharest in the Department of Historical Theology and Byzantine History with a thesis on the Second Bulgarian Empire between the 12th and 13th centuries. 2007: PhD in church history from the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen and Nuremberg with a dissertation in historical anthropology on the topic of the sense of honour in medieval society based on a case study of the Pax Dei in the 10th and 11th centuries. 2007-2012: postdoctoral researcher at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies and in the platform “World Regions and Interactions: Area Studies, Transregionally” in Erfurt with a project on the prince of the Wallachia Neagoe Basarab (1512-1521). January-May 2012: Stanley S. Seeger Research Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Princeton University.
2012-2022 research associate at the IEG. 2022-2024 scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Since 2025 affiliated researcher at the IEG.
- Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie e.V., Fachgruppe Kirchengeschichte
- AP-GC – Alternative Perspectives and Global Concerns
- Internationale Gesellschaft für Theologische Mediävistik
- Deutscher Hochschulverband
- Gesellschaft zum Studium des Christlichen Ostens
- History of European Christianity
- Eastern Church Studies and History of Religion in South-Eastern Europe
- Interdenominational Dynamics
- Church and Theology History in Pre-modern and Early Modern Times
- Patristics
- Editor: Orthodoxy on the Move. Mobility, Networks, and Belonging from the 16th to 20th centuries, Special Issue, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Theologia Orthodoxa 68/1 (2023), 245 p., https://doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2023.1
- Neagoe Basarab – Princeps Christianus. The Semantics of Christianitas in Comparison with Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli (1513-1523), Oxford u.a. 2021 (Studies in Eastern Orthodoxy 6), https://doi.org/10.3726/b17569
- Polyzentrische Ordnungsbildung. “Politischer Hesychasmus” am Beispiel der Walachei und der Moldau (14. bis 16. Jahrhundert). Erfurt 2021 (Erfurter Vorträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Orthodoxen Christentums 20)
- Eastern Orthodoxy as confession: an essay on principles or Bringing the Synodikon of Orthodoxy into discussion of paradigms, in: Le monde byzantin du XIIIe au XVe siècle : anciennes ou nouvelles formes d’impérialité, hg. v. Marie-Hélène Blanchet, Raúl Estangüi Gómez, Paris 2021 (Travaux et mémoires 25,1), 827-868
- Commonwealth of the East. Space, Culture, and Transregional Orders by the Example of an Imported British Concept, in: Diana Hitzke (Hg.): Dominanz und Innovation. Epistemologische und künstlerische Konzepte Kleiner europäischer und nicht-westlicher Kulturen, Bielefeld 2021, 75-94, https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457375-004
