My research focuses on parenthood and imprisonment in Switzerland. As a feminist geographer, I am interested in how state surveillance and policing influence intimate family life – especially when families are spatially separated by imprisonment. In my bachelor's thesis, I used interviews to examine the governance of motherhood in the women's prison Hindelbank. In my master's thesis, I used statistical and qualitative methods to analyse (the documentation of) parenthood in the four prisons in the canton of Bern.
I have a bachelor's degree in geography with a minor in social sciences and a research-oriented master's degree in geography, both from the University of Bern. During my master's studies, I spent a semester as a Fulbright visiting student at the University of Kentucky, USA. Before attending university, I completed training as a commercial employee and worked in a law firm and various consulting companies.
Since August 2025, I’m a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the University of Bern. My dissertation project is rooted in the subdiscipline of carceral geographies and is part of the SNF-funded project “Intimate geographies of family fracturing”. Conceptually, I draw on social-geographical, feminist and intersectional theories to examine the experience and navigation of parenthood and family life in the context of multi-scalar politics of (in)justice in the Swiss penal system. I work primarily with qualitative methods such as narrative interviews, ethnographic observations and visual approaches. I particularly care about a reflexive and socially engaged approach to research that centers marginalized perspectives and aims to produce socially relevant and accessible results.
