Career
University studies and degrees
| 04/2015 | Bi-nationale Promotion an den Universitäten Leipzig und Utrecht (Afrikawissenschaften, Anthropologie/Religionswissenschaft) |
| 10/2008 | Master of Arts (Global Studies) an der Universität Leipzig (Erasmus Mundus Global Studies: Leipzig – Stellenbosch – Wroclaw) |
| 08/2008 | Master of Arts (Global Studies) an der Universität Wroclaw |
| 09/2005 | Licence (Histoire), Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| 09/2002 | Candidature (Histoire), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
Positions and Research Fellowships
| Since 07/2018 | Visiting fellow at the IAAW der HU Berlin (Research group: Transport in Africa) |
| Since 01/2018 | Postdoctoral research fellow with the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Research project: "Whaleboats in the Forest: History and Anthropology of Socio-technical and Environmental Entanglements on the Upper Congo River (DR Congo)" |
| 02/2018 – 09/2018 | Substitute lecturer fort he MA-coures “Anthropology of Material Culture”, Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) |
| Seit 09/2017 | Visiting professor, ´Université Catholique de Kisangani (Demokratische Republik Kongo) |
| 01/2017 – 12/2018 | Postdoc-fellow withihn the transnational research project „The Bureaucratisation of African Societies“ with the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP) and the Centre des recherches sur les politiques sociales (CREPOS), Dakar |
| 06/2016 – 08/2016 | Visiting fellow at the Leibnitz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
| 10/2015– 05/2016 | Visiting professor at the Philosophat Edith Stein, Kisangani (Demokratische Republik Kongo). Introductory courses Cultural Anthropology (incl. Fieldwork methods), Hisory of Africa and of the DRC. |
| 09/2012 – 12/2012 | Visiting Phd-student at the Department for Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University |
| 4/2009 – 4/2012 | Phd student a spart of the DFG-funded graduate school „Cristical Junctures of Globalisation“, Universität of Leipzig. |