I'm a bilingual reporter focusing on the climate crisis, politics, the far-right and terrorism as well as social issues in the German-speaking world and beyond. I grew up in the Austrian Alps and spent almost a decade as a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia and China before relocating to Vienna.
My features, investigations and political analyses have been published by:
My features, investigations and political analyses have been published by:
The New York Times
The Washington Post
National Geographic Magazine
Foreign Policy
The Guardian
CNN
The L.A. Times
Nature
Wired
BBC
My writing and photography have also made the covers of multiple magazines. Every so often, I appear as an expert on TV and radio shows, and produce audio and videos, including in the summer of 2015, when I documented the journey of more than a million migrants arriving in Europe.
During the pandemic, I covered one of Europe's largest Covid-19 outbreaks in the Austrian ski resort Ischgl, traversed the European Alps for two National Geographic Magazine assignments, and began an investigation with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
I was the lead reporter for CNN, the Washington Post and AFP during the 2020 Vienna terrorist attack, and regularly work for AFP's Vienna bureau, from where I report and edit breaking news in Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Romania.
For my stories, I have tracked down one of the world's most prolific wildlife traffickers, investigated the shady finances of extremist far-right groups, explained the rise of homeopathy in Germany and uncovered why deadly cow attacks are on the rise in the Alps.
The Washington Post
National Geographic Magazine
Foreign Policy
The Guardian
CNN
The L.A. Times
Nature
Wired
BBC
My writing and photography have also made the covers of multiple magazines. Every so often, I appear as an expert on TV and radio shows, and produce audio and videos, including in the summer of 2015, when I documented the journey of more than a million migrants arriving in Europe.
During the pandemic, I covered one of Europe's largest Covid-19 outbreaks in the Austrian ski resort Ischgl, traversed the European Alps for two National Geographic Magazine assignments, and began an investigation with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
I was the lead reporter for CNN, the Washington Post and AFP during the 2020 Vienna terrorist attack, and regularly work for AFP's Vienna bureau, from where I report and edit breaking news in Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Romania.
For my stories, I have tracked down one of the world's most prolific wildlife traffickers, investigated the shady finances of extremist far-right groups, explained the rise of homeopathy in Germany and uncovered why deadly cow attacks are on the rise in the Alps.
Before returning to Europe in 2018, I spent almost a decade in Asia, most recently as head of features and multimedia productions at Sixth Tone in China, where I led and trained a team of 20 international journalists to win multiple international awards.
As a reporter and correspondent in China, I uncovered forced evictions and land speculations tied to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, reported from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia, saw the rise of Xi Jinping and was the first to expose the links between the Chinese government and the world's largest producer of video surveillance.
Over the course of my career, my reporting has taken me to more than 20 countries, including remote pockets of India, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, most of Europe and conflict and post-conflict zones like South Sudan and Uganda. In Kenya, I got Hostile Environment and First Aid training as part of an IWMF fellowship.
As a reporter and correspondent in China, I uncovered forced evictions and land speculations tied to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, reported from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia, saw the rise of Xi Jinping and was the first to expose the links between the Chinese government and the world's largest producer of video surveillance.
Over the course of my career, my reporting has taken me to more than 20 countries, including remote pockets of India, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, most of Europe and conflict and post-conflict zones like South Sudan and Uganda. In Kenya, I got Hostile Environment and First Aid training as part of an IWMF fellowship.
I am also a National Geographic Explorer and and have won several international journalism awards, including for my investigations on sex and labor trafficking, my feature writing and environmental reporting.
Occassionally, I write stories auf Deutsch, zum Beispiel für Die Zeit und Süddeutsche Zeitung.
I can read French, hold basic conversations in Mandarin Chinese, but have forgotten most of the Russian I learned at university.
