2021
Professor of Cross-Cultural and Urban Communication, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

2016-2017
Parental leave

2013 - present
Assistant Professor Cross-Cultural and Urban Communication, University of Cologne

2011 - 2013 
Communication Officer, University of Hamburg

2011 
Research Associate in the DFG-funded project “Megacities – Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change“,Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg

2011
PhD in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Passau

2007 - 2008
Research Fellow, Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, funded by DAAD

2006 - 2011 
Research Associate, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Passau

• Urbanism
• Media and communication
• State-society relations
• Development
• Visualization in participatory programmes
• Audiovisual methods
• Hip Hop studies
• Regions: Southeast Asia and the Pearl River Delta