I am interested in understanding how social inequalities unfold from organizational perspectives and focus on collective change efforts towards more social justice. With an established research focus on intersectional gender inequalities at the interface of individual, organization, and society, I especially emphasize the ways in which resistance can emerge from vulnerabilities and enable collective forms of organizing.
01/10/2018 – 19/10/2022 Doctorate (Dr.) in Social and Economic Sciences, WU Vienna, Austria
01/09/2016 – 11/06/2018 Master(MSc.) in Business, Language and Culture, Concentration Diversity and Change Management, CBS, Denmark
01/10/2011 – 28/07/2016 Bachelor(BSc.) in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Concentrations Diversity Management and Change Management, WU Vienna, Austria
30/01/2015 – 22/07/2015 Exchange student in International Business, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
From 01/01/2025 Post Doc Researcher, Research Institute for Organizational Psychology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
From 01/01/2024 Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organizational Behavior, WU Vienna, Austria
01/01/2024 – 31/12/2024 Post DocResearcher & Lecturer, Department of Organization, CBS, Denmark
01/11/2022 – 31/12/2023 Post DocResearcher, Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organizational Behavior, WU Vienna, Austria
01/08/2021 – 31/10/2021 Visiting PhD Scholar withSara Louise Muhr, Department of Organization, CBS, Denmark
15/03/2019 – 31/10/2022 PhD Researcher & Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organizational Behavior, WU Vienna, Austria
From 01/03/2020 Lecturer of#VOMperspectives (BSC),WU Vienna, Austria:Seminar focusing on coaching students during the development of a course paper about the application of theory perspectives on societally relevant phenomena
From 01/10/2021 Lecturer ofMaster Coaching (MSC),WU Vienna, Austria:Course accompanying students during the process of their master's thesis, to determine the research design and to carry out a planning of the work
Supervision of master theses, WU Vienna, Austria
QUEER SPACE: COLLECTIVE ORGANIZATION OF RESISTANCE THROUGH QUEERING SPATIAL PRACTICES
This research project entitled “Collective Organization of Resistance through Queering Spatial Practices” (QueerSpace) inquires how collective resistance emerges from queering spatial practices in creative industries. In the last decades, queer perspectives and inquiries of resistance have received increasing attention in studies of organizations and organizing. However, research on the organization of resistance through queer collective practice is rare. QueerSpace therefore raises the research question: "How does collective resistance emerge from queering spatial practices in creative industries?". The study builds on theories of resistance, space, and affect and draws on qualitative ethnographic data collected with queer collectives in the creative industries of Zurich and Vienna. Investigations include different kinds of queer collectives (drag performance collectives, queer music collectives, and queer contemporary art collectives) in the two cities, highlighting the role of the urban space context and the collectives’ embeddedness in the different art scenes. Focusing on organizational forces of resistance, QueerSpace emphasizes collectives that dedicate themselves to challenge dominant norms of gender and sexuality by creating spaces of resistance in which minority experiences are validated. In investigating these spaces, the study applies an affective ethnographic approach and draws on queer affective methodologies to investigate how affect becomes communal as it emerges from collective encounters in the form of atmospheres with organizational forces. By studying queering spatial practices through an affect-theoretical lens, QueerSpace contributes to existing research on the organization of resistance with a queer perspective and insights into the collective aspect of organizing resistance.
Since 2025 Research Network Affects, Feelings and Emotions, Member
Since 2024 EGOS Feminist Network, Network Co-lead
Since 2023Management and Organization Scholars for Palestine Network, Network Co-lead
Since 2022 Queer Feminist Research Network, Network Co-lead
Since 2020 EGOS Member, Co-organizer Conference Social Organizing Team EGOS Conference 2022, Vienna, Austria
2025 Stepping StoneFunding recipient, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (80.000 CHF)
2024 Great Minds Fellowship recipient, Basic Research Fund of HSG University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (195.157 CHF)
2026
Organizing decolonial queer ecologies: Re-imagining queer studies together with the posthuman turn (accepted), Sub-theme, Convener, EGOS Annual Meeting, Liverpool, UK
2025
Why is Palestine a feminist issue?Panelist, Symposium for Palestine, online
Reinvisioning affective solidarities across contexts, Sub-theme, Convener, Conference of the Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF), Basel, Switzerland
Studying sex-related work: From lap dancers to only fans, a research agenda for MOS, Symposium, Panelist, AoM Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark
Empirical Studies of Activist Organizing and Organization & EDI in Difficult Times: Organizing Solidarity beyond Opposition and Resistance (accepted), Sub-themes, Presenter, EGOS Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece
Exploring Creativity for a Feminist Academia, EGOS Feminist Network Meeting, Convener, EGOS Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece
Regenerative Critical Management Studies, General Track,Presenter, International Critical Management Studies conference, Manchester, UK
The creative potential of feminist world-making: Temporalities, collectives, and practices of alternative organizing, Presenter, Workshop at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2024
Recognizing and reflecting on queer spaces within feminist organization studies, Panelist, 30 years of feminist organization research, ICMS, online
An intersectional queer agenda for future feminist organization research, Panelist, CMS in-touch: Walking towards the Future, online
Fetish and Organization Studies: Taking Inspiration from Porn, Presenter, Paper Session, The Danish Gender Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Time to create queer spaces: Queering organization studies, Sub-theme, Convener, EGOS Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy
Queering bodies and desires: An intersectional approach to gender and sexuality, Stream, Convener, Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) Annual Meeting, Cape Breton, Canada
Writing Dreams, Dreaming to Write, Organizer & Convener, 2nd Queer Feminist Writing Workshop of the Queer Feminist Research Network, Ascona, Switzerland
Re-thinking responsible management: Exploring the ethics and politics of organizing and researching, Presenter, Workshop at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2023
Shaping desirable futures: Imagining (real) utopias, Paper Session, Presenter, EGOS Annual Meeting, Cagliari, Sardinia
Queer(ing) activism in organizations: Voicing experiences of queer bodies, allyship, and alliances across intersectional marginalization, Stream, Convener, Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) Annual Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa
Utopias and dystopias: Organization studies in a brave new world? Paper Session, Presenter, 17th Organization Studies Workshop, Athens, Greece
Bodies to words - Words to bodies, Organizer & Convener, 1st Queer Feminist Writing Workshop of the Queer Feminist Research Network, Vienna, Austria
Community, Democracy, and Organizations, Paper Session, Presenter, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Where work/life happens: Spaces and Places in Flux, Roundtable Session, Presenter, Space Workshop Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2022
Diversity & Inclusion, Paper Session, Presenter, XII International Workshop on Human Resource Management (IHRM), Cádiz, Spain
Queer vs. Heteronormative Research, Track Session & Incubator, PDW Sessions, Presenter & Discussant, 7th CBS Workshop on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion, Copenhagen, Denmark
Embodied Gender in Economics, Paper Session, Presenter, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society for Gender Research (ÖGGF), Salzburg, Austria
Career Agency, Identity and Social Class Factors, Paper Session, Presenter, AoM Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
Gender and Careers, Paper Session & Social Movements and Organizations, PDW Session, Presenter & Discussant, EGOS Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria
Feminisms and Intersectionalities in/at Work, Employment and Organizations, Paper Session & Vulnerable Relational Praxis in Organizations, Paper Session, Presenter & Discussant, Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) Conference, Bogota, Colombia
Translating Research into Practice: Interrupting Bias to Promote Diversity, Podium Discussion, Panelist, CBS Eventof the International Women’s Day, Copenhagen, Denmark
AMR Workshop on theorizing time, Paper Development Workshop, Participant, Academy of Management Review (AMR) Workshop (virtual)
Diversity, Diversity Management and Intersectionality in a Global Context - Dynamics and Realignments, Paper Session, Presenter, WU Gender and Diversity Conference (virtual)
Challenging Communication, Presenter, Conference Kaiserschild Foundation, Covid-19-related research grant program (virtual)
2021-2022
Conference Social Organizing Team, Co-organizer, EGOS Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria
2021
Gender and Class-based Inequalities and Identities at Work, Paper Session, Presenter, Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) Conference (virtual)
Social Class and Gender in Working Lives across the Globe, Symposium, Organizer, AoM Annual Meeting (virtual)
Workplace Inclusion, Symposium, Co-organizer, Human Rights Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
Intersectionality: Social Inequalities, Marginalization, Power, Paper Session, Presenter, Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS) (virtual)
2020
Inclusive Careers, Paper Session, Presenter, AoM Annual Meeting (virtual)
Time is of the Essence: Reviving the Temporal Perspective on Careers, Paper Session, Panelist, EGOS Annual Meeting (virtual)
Teaching about Careers in Turbulent Times, PDW Session, Panelist, 1st Careers Division Community Conference (CarCon), Vienna, Austria
2019-2020
Conference Organizing Team, Co-organizer, 1st Careers Division Community Conference(CarCon), WU Vienna, Austria
2019
Equal Opportunities, Good Work and Careers, Paper Session, Presenter, AKempor Annual Meeting, Hamburg, Germany
Grounded Theory Method Working Group, Participant, Vienna Autumn School of Methods, Vienna, Austria
On-Boarding Diversity in Corporate Boards Research, PDW Session, Co-organizer, AoM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Editorial Board Member of Feminism and Organization
Editor of Special Section “Decolonial Queeries” at Feminism and Organization