Curriculum Vitae

Education

2015 -
Habilitation University Leipzig
2014  
PhD Social and Cultural Anthropology Freie Universität Berlin
2007  
M.A., Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies Free University Berlin

Professional appointments

10/2023 - 03/2024
Professor
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster
2021 -
Research Fellow, Research Partner
Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
2016 –              
Senior Researcher
Collaborative Research Center ‘Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition’ (SFB 1199)
University Leipzig
2015 –
Lecturer
Institute of Anthropology, University Leipzig
2014 – 2015
Assistant Professor, School of Ecology and Environment Studies
Nālandā University, India
2012 – 2013    
Instructor
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Cologne
2007 – 2011  
Instructor
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin

Grants and fellowships

2020
Workshop ‘Coastal Futures’, Thyssen Foundation
2020 – 
Coordinator Stream ‘Coastal Protection’, Network ShapingAsia, DFG
2014
Visiting Fellow at Network of Competence ‘Crossroads Asia’, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
2012
Bursary Research School ‘Anthropology of Disasters’ in Pakistan, DAAD
2009 - 2012
Doctoral Grant, Hans-Böckler-Foundation
2008 - 2009
Doctoral Grant, DAAD

Associate positions

2017 –
Honorary Research Fellow
Jindal Global University, India
2016 –        
Associated Research Fellow
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin