CV

Education

2014: PhD in Social Anthropology at the URPP Asia and Europe, University of Zurich
2007: M. A. in Social Anthropology & Organic Agriculture, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna and Department of Agriculture, University of Applied Life Sciences Vienna

since 2018: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
2017: Research Fellow in the European Research Council funded project “Remoteness and Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2017: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Munich
2015 – 2016: Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Munich
2014 – 2015: Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
2014: Visiting Scholar, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Kathmandu
2012 – 2013: Visiting Scholar, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
2011: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
2009 – 2012: Research Fellow, URPP Asia & Europe, University of Zurich
Since 2009: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
2007 – 2008: Graduate Student Instructor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna

2015 & 2016: Travel Grant, University of Munich
2014–2015: Early Postdoc. Mobility fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation
2014: Travel Grant, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
2012–2013: Fellowship for prospective researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation
2012: Travel Grant, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
2009 – 2012: Research Grant, Humer Foundation for Academic Talent and URPP Asia & Europe of the University of Zurich
2008: Research grant, University of Vienna Summer grant, Graduate School Asia and Africa in World Reference Systems at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2007: Merit scholarship, University of Vienna
2006: Research grant, University of Vienna; CEEPUS grant, Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research and Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences
2005: Research grant, South African Wine Industry Trust (with Werner Zips & colleagues)
2004: Travel grant, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna