2014 - present
Chair Professor for Modern China Studies at the University of Cologne

2013
Habilitation in Sinology, University of Vienna

2012 - 2014
Assistant Professor for Sinology, University of Vienna

2008 - 2010
Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

2006 - 2011
Full-Position as Lecturer for Sinology at the University of Vienna

2006
PhD in Sinology, University of Vienna

2004 - 2006
Half-Position as Lecturer for Sinology, University of Vienna

2004
M.A. in China Studies, Chinese and Politics of East Asia Ruhr-University-Bochum

• Global History of Economic Reforms under State Socialism
• Marxism in the Global South
• Social History of Maoist China
• History and Memory of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Class and Gender in China’s Transformation after 1978
• Food Politics and Famine

2015 - 2016, 2021 - present
Director of the Department for East Asian Studies, University of Cologne

2015 - present
Member of the academic advisory board of ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia

2008 - 2015
Vice-Director of the Study Program in Sinology at the Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Vienna