Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education

2005 - 2011
Studies in Social Anthropology, Religious Studies and Public Law at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany

June 2011
Magistra Artium

Since October 2011
Ph.D. Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)

Field Research and Study Visits

2007
Summer University at Qafqaz University Baku, Azerbaijan and Black Sea University Tbilisi, Georgia “Oil and Regional Integration in the South Caucasus“ (DAAD scholarship)
Training in field research in Baku, Azerbaijan
Title: “Labour migration and its impact on Azerbaijanian households”
Summer University at Slavic University Baku, Azerbaijan “Tourist potential and nation-building in Azerbaijan” (DAAD scholarship)

2009
Field research for master’s thesis in Baku, Azerbaijan
Master Thesis: “The Interdependence of Food and Remembrance in Azerbaijanian Mourning Rituals”

Conferences

October 2009
DAAD Academic Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan

December 2010
German Azerbaijanian Academic Conference at Humboldt University Berlin

June 2011
2nd Congress of the Research Foundation RVO “Concepts of Hereafter in the Near and Middle East”

November 2011
5th International Congress "Science and Technology for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Basin" in Istanbul, Turkey

Work Experience

2007-2010
Student assistant at the Department of Culture and Arts at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

January- September 2011
Student research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology