• since Dec 2024: Director of the WOC Research Center Digital Diaspora, U Bremen
• 2024: Awarding of the academic title “Professor” in accordance with §17 Abs. 1 Satz 2 BremHG
• 2023: ERC Starting Grant for the project „Afroeurope and Cyberspace“ (project start: 2024)
• 2023: Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award of the African Literature Association
• Apr-Sept 2021: Interim full professor (W3) for French and Francophone Literary and Cultural Studies at U Bremen
• 2021: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
• 2019: Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Academy-Prize for the Humanities
• since 2018: vice director of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) of U Bremen
• since 2018: Individual Research Grant of the German Research Foundation  (project no.: BO 4869/1) “Die spanische Black Diaspora: Afro-spanische Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts” 
• 2017: Certificate “Hochschuldidaktische Qualifizierung” of the Universities Bremen, Oldenburg and Osnabrück
• 2016-2017: Selected participant of the academic career management program “plan m Mentoring in Science für Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaftlerinnen” at U Bremen
• 2016: Berninghausen Prize for Excellence in Teaching(with Natasche Ueckmann)
• since 2015: Postdoctoral Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at U Bremen (Department 10: Linguistics and Literary Studies)
• 2014-2015: Postdoctoral Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at U Hamburg (Institute for Romance Studies)
• 2014: PhD in Romance Studies („Romanische Philologie / Literaturwissenschaft“) with a doctoral thesis on the contemporary Haitian novel (supervisor: Markus Klaus Schäffauer)
• since 2011: Numerous workshops on career management and key qualifications in academia, Career Center of U Hamburg (2011-2015), Pro Exzellenzia – Hamburgs Karriere Kompetenz-Zentrum für Frauen and Bremen Early Career Reserarcher Development (BYRD) (since 2015)
• 2010-2014: Adjunct Instructor (Lehrbeauftragte) at the Institute for Romance Studies of U Hamburg (Francophone and Hispanophone literary and cultural studies)
• 2009-2012: PhD scholarship
• 2008-2009: Collaboration on a research project on the representation of violence in Latin America and Africa (U Hamburg & U Bayreuth)
• 2007: Magister Artium (M.A.) in Romance Studies (French, Spanish, Portuguese) and Economic Policy at the Albert-Ludwigs-U Freiburg i.Br. – MA thesis: „La machine se met en branle: Der Kapitalismus im Zyklus der Rougon-Macquart von Émile Zola“ (supervisor: Frank-Rutger Hausmann)
• 2006-2007: Student Assiatant at the International Office of Albert-Ludwigs-U Freiburg i. Br.
• 2005: Semester abroad in Madrid (internship in international marketing, Fresenius Medical Care)
• 2002-2003: Semesters abroad (ERASMUS) in France at Université Nice – Sophia Antipolis