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

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