Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Academic Career

  • WS 2024/25 Substitute Professor for the chair “Kulturen und Gesellschaften Südasiens“
  • 2018-2024: Member of the DFG's long-term project "Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989 (MIDA)" at the Seminar for South Asian Studies at the Humboldt University and at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin. Postdoctoral Project on the "German Botanists in and around India and their participation in colonialism in the 19th century"
  • 2015-2018: Researcher in the DFG project "Global Research and Imperial Power: The Botanical Communication Network of Nathaniel Wallich between Copenhagen, Calcutta and Kew in the First Half of the 19th Century" (Head: Prof. Dr. Martin Krieger, CAU Kiel)
  • 2013: Research associate at the Chair of the History of Northern Europe at the CAU Kiel
  • 2010-2012: Researcher in the DFG project "Everyday drink and intoxicants in the colonial discourse: Production, trade and consumption of alcohol and public debates in the Danish East Indies (17th-19th century)" (Director: Prof. Dr. Martin Krieger, CAU Kiel)
  • 2017: Dissertation in the University Research Priority Program (URPP) Asia and Europe at the University of Zurich on the topic "Deviance in the Danish-English-Hallesches India Mission of the late 18th Century" supervised by: Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Fisch; PD Dr. Sven Trakulhun (both University of Zurich) and Prof. Dr. med. Martin Krieger (CAU Kiel)
  • Research stays at Serampore College (India), funded by Prof. Dr. med. Werner Petersen Foundation (Kiel) and in the archive of the Francke Foundations (Halle / Saale), funded by a Fritz Thyssen scholarship from the Francke Foundations
  • Study of Middle and Modern History, Political Science, first of Sociology, then of Law at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. MA thesis on "Hindu Nationalism and European Fascism: A Comparison" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hermann Kulke and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fouquet)