2017-present
Research Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany.

2016-2017
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany

2010-2015
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany. Department 'Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia'. ‘Kinship and social support in China and Vietnam’ research group.

2007-2012
PhD in Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Under the supervision of Dr Kevin Latham and Dr Caroline Osella. Dissertation: ‘An ethnographic inquiry into the limits of China’s migration paradigm’

• Urban China
• social inequalities (especially class and gender)
• value, production and reproduction
• social theory