At Chemnitz University of Technology, he handed in his PhD thesis on cultural representations of both September 11, 2001 and the attacks on Pearl Harbor as national traumata. He has contributed research papers in academic readers and international journals in the field of media studies, critical finance studies, literary criticism, gender studies, and popular culture. Currently he is working on his post-doctoral project in the field of transatlantic studies entitled "Transit Cultures: 18th Century Medical Discourses and Knowledge Media in the North American Colonies".