2025 - present
Research Fellow and Lecturer at University of Cologne

2025
Substitute Professor at University of Konstanz 

2021-2024
Research Fellow at University of Heidelberg

2020
Visiting Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore

2014 - 2018
Research Fellow at the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne

2009 - 2014
Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Germany)

2008 - 2009
Lecturer at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and WWU Münster

2002 - 2007
PhD in Social Anthropology and Modern History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

1996 - 2002
MA in Social Anthropology, Modern History and Sociology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2001 - 2002
Erasmus program, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris/France)

• Historical Anthropology of upland Southeast Asia
• Economic Anthropology
• Ethnicity and Nationalism
• Memory Studies
• Southeast Asian History
• Lao Language and Culture