2012 - present
Junior Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne

2011
ASAFAS Fellow, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, University of Kyoto

2008 - 2010
Post-doctoral research project on “transnational relations of Cameroonian Muslim migrants”, research grant of the University of Zurich

2006 - 2012
Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich

2006
PhD (with distinction) in Social Anthropology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Thesis title: “Getting along in the Grassfields: interethnic relations and identity politics in northwest Cameroon”

2003
Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent

2000 - 2006
PhD candidate and Junior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale