Portfolio: ludolobster.com | Itch: ludolobster.itch.io/

Education and Degrees

MA GAME STUDIES AND ENGINEERING | KLAGENFURT UNIVERSITY | FORTHCOMING

BA BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES | BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY | 2018

CHEF | CARL-SEVERING-BERUFSKOLLEG | 2010

FACHSCHULREIFE | GYMNASIUM HEEPEN | 2006

Writing

Bachelor’s Thesis: If I Throw a Ball at You, You Could Wait until It Starts Telling a Story – A Ludo-Narratological Approach to Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4

Master’s Thesis (work in progress): Speculative Objects and Where to Find Them: A Ludo-Ontological Approach to Archaeogaming and Digital Artifacts

Conference Anthology: Mixed Reality and Games: Theoretical and Practical Approaches in Game Studies and Education (approx. November 2020)

Conference Paper: Archaeology and Videogames: Towards the Nature of Artifacts as Hyperobjects (approx. November 2020)

Illustrated bookAnd Thus Spake Lobsterthustra

Skills

SOFTWARE: Microsoft Office | Teams | WordPress | Jira | Slack | Inkscape | Adobe Illustrator

SOCIAL:Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Twitch | Discord

LANGUAGES: 

German native

English C1

Spanish A2

French A2 

Experience Academia and Related

ASSISTANT| UNESCO CHAIR – UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT | NOVEMBER 2020 – CURRENT

Review and editing of yearbook | Creation and management of chair website & social media | Organisation International Migration Conference 2021

ASSISTANT | GAME STUDIES AND ENGINEERING – UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT | SEPTEMBER 2020 – CURRENT

Assistant programme director | Social Media and Website | Office tasks| PR master’s programme | Tech support digital teaching and streaming | Application processing

GAME TESTER BUPP.AT | FEDRAL MINISTRY OF LABOUR, FAMILY AND YOUTH | SEPTEMBER 2019 – CURRENT

Testing of games for the age group of youths | Creation of recommendation | Educating children and parents on recommendable games on events such as the Wiener Spieletage

TUTOR KLAGENFURT CRITICAL GAME LAB | UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT | OCTOBER 2019 – CURRENT

Critical analysis of selected videogames on a range of topics under the category of game studies | Organization of weekly game labs, where students play, analyse, and discuss videogames

HEAD OF EDITORIAL | UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT | NOVEMBER 2018 – CURRENT 

Setting up a team of editors | Planning out standards, peer-review | Gathering and generating content for the Klagenfurt Critical Game Lab and Coding Game Lab

GAME STUDIES AND ENGINEERING | UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT | CURRENT

Currently in the 4th Semester, focusing primarily on Game Studies

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE FROG VIENNA 2019UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT AND FEDRAL MINISTRY OF LABOUR, FAMILY AND YOUTH | MAY 2019 – NOVEMBER 2020

Organisation of FROG conference (Future and Reality of Gaming) in Vienna. The conference is a part of the GameCity in Vienna and offer an insight into the industry as well as academic and educational aspects of digital games | Conference publication 

TEACHING | BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY | APRIL – JULY 2018

Undergraduate seminar: Playing with Fear: Analyzing Horror in Video Games

STUDENT COUNSELLER | BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY | APRIL 2017 – MARCH 2018 

Supporting students in issues related to the programmes offered by the Faculty for Linguistics and Literary Studies: Office hours, e-mail, study guides, setting up the student’s schedule

INTERN | BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY | FEBRUARY – APRIL 2015 

Internship at the Welcome Centre which is connected to the university’s International Office: back office, planning of events, office hours for foreign researchers, mentoring, social media

TRANSLATOR | SALIM PUSHPANATH | JULY 2012

Support in translating Flavours of Kerala from English to German

TRANSLATOR | F M MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES | FEBRUARY – APRIL 2012

Translation of various ayurvedic and medical articles

Experience Gastronomy

FREELANCE CHEF | BIELEFELDER HOF | APRIL 2016 – FEBRUARY 2018

Breakfast shifts and buffets

DEMI CHEF DE PARTIE | BIELEFELDER HOF | JANUARY 2013 – MARCH 2014

Breakfast shifts and buffets

CHEF | VAPIANO BIELEFELD | DECEMBER 2012

Preparation kitchen and pasta station

COMMIS | CLIVEDEN COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL | NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2011

Warm starts and buffets

COMMIS | SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN HOTEL, WINDSOR | JUNE – NOVEMBER 2011

Cold dishes; buffets; weddings

COMMIS | BIELEFELDER HOF | JUNE 2010 – FEBRUARY 2011

Restaurant kitchen and buffets

APPRENTICESHIP | MÖVENPICK HOTEL BIELEFELD | JUNE 2007 – JUNE 2010

Training as a chef in all areas of the hotel.

AYURVEDIC COOKING | SREE SANKARA GARDENS, INDIA | OCTOBER 2006

Preparation of ayurvedic food along with documentation in a cookbook

INTERN | MÖVENPICK HOTEL BIELEFELD | JANUARY 2006 

Cold dishes; buffets; and breakfast