Professional experience
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Since 2003 |
Coordinator of the Siberian Studies Centre | |
| 2000-2002 | Department for Sociology and Anthropology, University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, UK ) Research assistant (half time) of Prof. Tim Ingold for the EU-funded scientific project SPICE |
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| 1998-2000 | Department for Sociology and Anthropology, University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, UK) Research assistant (full time) of Prof. Tim Ingold for the EU-funded scientific project TUNDRA |
Education
| 1997-2004 | PhD studies, academic supervisor: Dr. Piers Vitebsky, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Dissertation “What it Means to Be a Herdsman: the practice and image of reindeer husbandry among the Komi of Northern Russia” | |
| 1993-1997 | Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Mongolian Studies, completed first section (Grundstudium) |
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| 1988-1996 | Freie Universität Berlin Diploma in Geography with Social Anthropology and History |
Field research experience and training in the Russian Federation
| Since 2005 | Multiple short visits to the city of Novosibirsk and the surroundings | |
| 1998-2005 | Fieldwork trips (2 to 12 months each) to the Komi Republic and Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Northern Urals) | |
| 1994 | Internship, Gesellschaft f. Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Technical Cooperation, GTZ, now: German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ) in Halbstadt (Altai) | |
| 1993, 1995 | Short visits to the Evenk Autonomous Okrug (Central Siberia) |
Teaching experience
| 2009-2011 |
External supervisor for PhD and MA theses in Halle and Aberdeen |
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Summer term 2008 |
With Aimar Ventsel (Tartu University) |
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Winter term 2006-2007 |
With Deema Kaneff und Brian Donahoe (then MPI) |
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Summer term 2006 |
With Brian Donahoe (then MPI) “Key Issues in Land Use: anthropological debates on nature, landscape, the environment, and property”, Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw |
Editorial activities
| Since 2005 | Associate Editor of the journal Sibirica (published by Berghahn) | |
| Since 2008 | Member of the scientific board of the journal Etnografia Polska | |
| Since 2006 | Member of the scientific board of the journal Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibetaines Reviewer for Inner Asia, Journal for Rural Studies, Landscape Research |
Organisation of workshops and conferences (2008-2011)
| Oct. 2009 |
With Wieland Hintzsche (Halle) and others: |
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| Nov. 2008 |
With Wieland Hintzsche (Halle) and others: |
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| May 2008 |
With Olga Povoroznyuk (Moscow) and Virginie Vaté (Paris): |
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| March 2008 |
With Piers Vitebsky (Cambridge): |
Presentations and conference contributions (2011)
| July 2011 | “From SO36 to Herd Number Nine: How people structure space and express local identities through numbers”. Conference on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Prof. Günther Schlee, Halle (12 July) | ||
| June 2011 |
With Ludek Broz (Prague) |
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| April 2011 |
“Die indigenen Völker im Hohen Norden Russlands: Landnutzung – Umweltprobleme – politische Repräsentation” [Indigenous Peoples in the Far North of Russia: land use – environmental problems – political representation]. Geographical Society, Halle (12 April) |
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| Febr. 2011 | “Usloviia i ogranicheniia raznoobraziia stilei zhizni v Sibiri: vvedenie” [Conditions and Limitations of Lifestyle Plurality in Siberia: Introduction.] “Mnogoobrazie zhiznennykh stilei na Severe Rossii, Sibiri i na Dal’nem Vostoke” [Lifestyle diversity in the Far North, Siberia, and the Far East of Russia]. Conference at Novosibirsk State University (11 February) | ||
| Febr. 2011 | “Spatial Cognition and Socialist Enclosure: The Tunguska experience”. Workshop on ”Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces: Productions and cognitions” (within the framework of SFB 586), University Leipzig (4 February) |
Functions in scientific committees and as external reviewer
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2006-2012 |
Elected representative of the scientific staff of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology to the Humanities Section in the Max Planck Society (in this function also member of search committees) |
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| Since 2008 | German representative in the “Social and Human Working Group” of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), member of the German Commission for IASC | |
| 2007-2008 |
Member of the German Commission for the International Polar Year (IPY) |
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| 2006-2009 |
Member of the Scientific Board of the BOREAS programme of the European Science Foundation (ESF) External reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DGF), European Research Council (ERC) and the US-American National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Memberships in scientific organisations
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Since 2008 |
Member of the German Society of Polar Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, DGP) |
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| Since 2006 | Member of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) | |
| Since 2004 | Member of the German Anthropological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, DGV), refounder of the regional chapter Circumpolar areas and Siberia |
Participation in third-party funded projects
| 2011-2012 | Co-applicant of the pilot project “Brainscapes” (directed by Prof. Günther Schlee and Prof. Robert Turner), supported by the Max Planck Society (MaxNet Cognition) | |
| 2008-2012 | Documentation of the sub-project E8 “New Technologies in the Tundra“ (directed by Prof. Günther Schlee) in the Collaborative Research Centre 586 “Difference and Integration” |
Language Skills
German (mother tongue)
English and Russian (fluent)
French, Komi, Mongolian, Polish
(level of proficiency depending on the location)
Specific Software Knowledge
MaxQDA, SPSS