About

I’m a faculty member at the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University.

I’m the head of the MINT Lab that focuses on researching media, interaction, and technology.

My research interest are mainly qualitative approaches in the following areas:

• communication, networking, and organizational aspects to sustain and maintain open-source software communities;


• human-computer interaction and practices of producing and engaging with audiovisual media artifacts;


• computer-supported collaboration and video annotation tools.

My academic background is in media studies (PhD, 2012) and sociology (MA, 2008).

Before coming to Carnegie Mellon University, I was a faculty member at the Seminar for Media Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where I have researched and taught on popular culture, esp. reality TV.