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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 book: And 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 2019 | UNIVERSITY 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