Lebenslauf
Education
1981 – 1989
Free University, Berlin
Social Anthropology (PhD)
1967 – 1972
Technical University, Berlin Electrical Engineering (Diploma)
Professional career
2006 – to-date
Associate, Max-Planck Institute
1998 – 2007
Project Manager, GTZ International Services
1993 – 1997
Team Leader, GTZ Integrated Food Security Project Gash Setit, Eritrea
1991 – 1992
GTZ Project "Support to IGADD" (Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development), Djibouti
1990
GTZ Consultant in northern Kenya on "Human Ecology" of the Turkana
1989
Ph.D. graduation, postdoctoral sholarship in Paris, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH)
1988
Lecturer, Ethnological Institute, Free University Berlin
1986 – 1987
Field research among the Turkana of Northwest Kenya (intermittent)
1980 – 1985
Studies in Social Anthropology, Sociology, African languages
1982 – 1983
Field research among the Toposa of southeastern Sudan
1974 – 1979
Siemens Sales Manager, Telecommunications in Brasil, Egypt, Irak, Nigeria