Professional biography:

Dec. 2019 – Dec. 2020 Guest researcher at the Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia;

Oct. 2018 – Sep. 2021 Post Doc researcher at the Department of Southeast Asian studies, Bonn University. Project titele: The Economy of Interpellation: On the Relation between Indignity, State and Economy in Indonesia (founded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Dez. 2016 – March 2017 Guest researcher at the Indonesian Conference for Religion and Peace and field research in Jakarta

April 2016 – July 2016 Associate lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne

Oct. 2015 – Sep. 2018 Post Doc at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Bonn University

April 2015 – July 2015 Associate lecturer at the Institute for Oriental- and Asian Studies at Bonn University and at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne

Nov. 2013 – March 2014   Guest researcher at Tanjingpura University, Pontianak, Indonesia and field research in West-Kalimantan

Oct. 2011 – Sep. 2015 PhD-candidate at Bonn University at the “Bonn International Graduate School – Oriental and Asian Studies“. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Antweiler (South East Asian Studies) (grade: 0,0 “summa cum laude”)

July 2011 Magister-degree from the University of Bonn in Political Science (grade: 1,1 ”very good“)

Dec. 2008 – April 2009 Student at Udayana-University in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia (Indonesian language)

Aug. 2009 – Feb. 2010 Student at Udayana-University in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia (Indonesian language)

Oct. 2004 – July 2011 Student at the University of Bonn, Germany (major subject: Political Science, subsidiary subjects: Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy)

Research interests: Democratization and new authoritarianism, indigenous peoples and indigenous rights, environmental conflicts, perceptions of spirits, social media and politics, religion and atheism. Area: Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia