Senior lecturer in global history at Stockholm University since August 2023,

Reader/associate professor (Linnaeus University 2023)

I received my PhD from the University of Vienna in 2012 with a dissertation about early modern Manila. The study looked into how diplomatic relations and the political economies of different empires affected trans-Pacfic trade and the social relations on the ground. It is available open access as Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644: Local Comparisons and Global Connections (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) and was translated to Chinese in 2022. My second book Negotiating Imperialism. Murakami Naojirō's Archival Diplomacy appeared with CUP in 2025. Before joining the history department at Stockholm University, I held various research position, among others as JSPS postoc at Tokyo University (2013-2015), as HERA research associate at the University of Zürich (2016-2019) and as researcher and MSCA fellow Linnaeus University (2021-2023).

I am part of the collaborative project Historical Treaties in Southeast Asia (funded by the Swedish Research Council 2021-2027) and of Global Diplomacy: Recentering International Relations, 1400-1850 (funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2025-2027).

I have been an invited adjunct professor at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines, Diliman since October 2023. In 2025, I received a Philippine Studies Grant from the Office for Cultural Diplomacy for intitiating the Philippine History Forum at SU.

I am a founding member of the Global Diplomacy Network (GDN), a large and global network that aims to create a new understanding of global diplomatic history beyond the traditional Eurocentric narrative. Since 2016, the network has coordinated seven international conferences, online seminar series and two summer school.

Together with colleagues from LNU, I have created Global Archives Online (GAO). It is a searchable, free catalogue of open digital collections of primary sources aimed at history enthusiasts. In the autumn of 2024, I was the course coordinator for a PhD course with international participants that aimed to make information and metadata from GAO more usable for users from different world regions and educational backgrounds.

I am also the convenor of the departmental Early Modern History Seminar and of The Global Sounding Board: Stockholm Interdisciplinary History Series.