Curriculum Vitae


  • since 2023: Research assistant, Institute of Sociology, Bachelor's program in Social Sciences. Teaching activities (4 SWS), departmental study advisor, excursion leader of the excursion "Labor Market Berlin" for 114 students.

  • 2016-2023: Research assistant, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August-University Göttingen. Teaching position (2- 4 SWS), subject advisor (M.A.), Managing Editor of the GISCA Occasional Paper Series (2018-2022), mid-level representative of the institute (2019-2023), guest lecturer at the University of Social Sciences & Humanities (VNU-USSH) Hanoi, Vietnam (SoSe 2019), twice awarded as good practice teaching example of the faculty.

  • 2020: Publication of the dissertation "Spirits in Cambodia - Power, Existence and Ritual Practice". The book was published here.

  • 2020: Online content creator in the context of the call for proposals "Freiraum für Lehrende zur Entwicklung von innovativen Lehr- und Lernkonzepten" (Project Göttingen Campus QPLUS)

  • 2016: Research assistant for the development of a long-term curricular concept in anthropology

  • 2012-13: Fieldwork in Cambodia (12 months)

  • 2011-2015: Scholarship at the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) for Ph.D. project "Spirits in Cambodia - Practice, Power and Politics" at the University of Göttingen

  • 2011: Coordinator for the BMBF-funded project "Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia" (DORISEA), Georg-August- Universität Göttingen, representation (6 months)

  • 2011: Research Trip to Cambodia (1 month)

  • 2010-2011: Research assistant at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen.

  • 2010: Organization of the Workshop "Spirits in Modern Asia" at the Lichtenberg-Kollegin Göttingen

  • 2010: Magister Artium Cultural Studies, University of Bremen

  • 2009: Thesis "Jathilan- ein Trancetanz in der Region Yogyakarta, Indonesien" ("Jathilan - A Trance Dance in the Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia")

  • 2007-2008: Research stay in Indonesia, studying at the Center for Religious & and Cross-Cultural Studies (http://www.crcs.ugm.ac.id/) in Yogyakarta (8 months)

  • 2004: Start to study Religious and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen