I am an associate Professor in Ethnology at the School of Contemporary and Historical Studies and currently Director of Studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS).

I defended my PhD in 2013 with the dissertation "Painful legacy of World War II: Nazi forced enlistment: Alsatian/Mosellan Prisoners of War and the Soviet Prison Camp of Tambov", which addresses memory and mourning processes, counter-memories, working-through processes, resilience and the transmission of memories. My research interests include the instrumentalization of the past, reconciliation processes, and the transgenerational transmission of memory (member of the steering group of the Memory research platform).

I have also worked on the heritagization processes of industrial sites, especially of the nuclear power plants and have been working lately on environmental issues in the Baltic and East European region (co-ed. of the CBEES State of the Region Report; 2022/23). I have been working on the research project Nuclear Legacies: Negotiating Radioactivity in France, Russia and Sweden (2015-2017), and I am currently engaged in the research project Atomic Heritage Goes Critical (2018-2020). Within the project, I am addressing the social process related to the decommissioning of the nuclear plant at Fessenheim (France) and especially the process concerning the memorialization and heritagization of nuclear power plants in France https://atomicheritage.wordpress.com/ External link.

I have been engaged in the development of Romani studies at Södertörn University, and I am currently working as one of the coordinators of the governmental assignment for the revitalization of Romani chib in Sweden. Recently, I have initiated a collaborative project between Södertörn University and the National Historical Museums to collect testimonies of the genocide against the Roma during World War II.

I have been working as well with transnational processes since my Post Doc within the research program NORFACE about the future of the Welfare States in a transnational Europe (TRANSWEL) in which we were investigating mobile EU citizenship and the portability regimes of Social Security Rights (the Swedish team focused on the portability regimes between Estonia and Sweden). I am currently engaged, together with Olga Sasunkevich and Maarja Saar, in the research project In the shadows of war: Russian and Belarusian migrants and their identity construction in Lithuania and Poland after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.