From January 2025
Research associate in the EFZN research program "Transformation of the Lower Saxony energy system" (TEN.efzn)

Research platform: Trustworthy digitalization of safety-critical energy systems

Funded by zukunft.niedersachsen

From November 2020 to December 2024

PhD candidate
University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands, Department of Technology, Policy and Society (TPS); section Knowledge, Transformation &Society (KiTeS)

PhD project 
Challenging power relations – Governance of Blockchain-based InfrastructureTransitions on Energy markets – eGoBIT

-        Investigating the governance of socio-technical infrastructures in societies
-        Development and governance of novel energy infrastructures and -markets
-        Empirical research on local energy communities (Netherlands, Spain, Australia) and stakeholders in the energy sector
-        Cross-national analysis of the energy transition and transformation of the energy sector

BMS Signature Grant PhD position of the University of Twente

EU Horizon 2020 projects
EU Horizon 2020 – Sustainable and Integrated Energy Systems in Local Communities (SERENE), 2021-2025, budget >€5m

EU Horizon 2020 – Sustainable Energy System for Achieving Novel Carbon Neutral Energy Communities (SUSTENANCE), 2021-2025, budget >€3m

Teaching and student supervision
Lectures and tutorials, summer school course, workshops, thesis and project supervision

From September 2018 to October 2020
Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society | Master of Science
University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands

Master thesis
Helfrich, F.L. (2020). Governing socio-technical systems: internal governance of decentralised blockchain-based networks.

 -       Investigate the role of science and technology in societies
-        Interdisciplinary research combining social sciences with technical studies
-        Ethical and philosophical assessment

From 2014 to 2018
Sociology | Economics | Bachelor of Arts
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
Major subject: Sociology | Minor subject: Economics

-        Sociology of Technology
-        Science and Technology Studies (STS)
-        Statistical/quantitative data analysis, empirical social research
-        Macro- and microeconomics

From 2016 to 2017
Exchange semester University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands
Modules: "Philosophy of Science and Technology" and "Social Media and Networks"

-        Networkanalysis and social networks
-        Philosophy of Technology
-        Philosophy of Science