Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Central Asian Seminar

Office hours: on appointment Areas of teaching and research: Tibetan cultures in Himalayan areas Tibetan identity in India Asian medical systems Tibetan medicine in Indian exile and in the context of biomedicine Socio-cultural concepts of aging, vitality and toxicity in Tibetan medicine Ethnographic research methods

Current research projects:

• Tibetan longevity practices
• Vitality in Tibetan medicine
• Inter- and transcultural translations and reinterpretations of medical concepts of traditional and contemporary Tibetan epistemologies
• Therapeutic rejuvenating processes and pharmacological detoxification methods in contemporary Tibetan medicine in India and Nepal (DFG project 2011 - 2014)

Curriculum Vitae:

• Studies of Tibetan language and Tibetan medicine in India
• Studies of Medical Anthropology (M.Sc.) and Social Anthropology (D.Phil.) in Oxford (2002-2008)
• D.Phil. thesis on Tibetan longevity practices and concepts of the life-span among Tibetans in the Darjeeling region in India

Editorial Positions:

• Editor, Special Issue on Mercury in Asian Medicine, Asian Medicine, Tradition and Modernity. Vol. 8.2., Brill, Leiden.
• Editorial Board of HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association For Nepal and Himalaya Studies

List of publications as pdf file