Lebenslauf

Education

2016 - 2021     
PhD, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich (UZH)

2013 - 2014     
MSc, London Schools of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE)

2012 - 2014
MA, University of Leipzig, Erasmus Mundus Master (double degree with LSE)

2008 - 2012
BA, Social Anthropology and South Asian Studies (minor), University of Heidelberg

2010 - 2011
Studies in Anthropology, Japanese, Global History, and East Asian History at the Sophia University (上智大学), Tokyo

Professional appointments

11/2020-  
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
ECR project "Religion and Its Others in South Asia and the World (ROSA)" https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/817959

2015 - 2019
Lecturer
University of Zurich (UZH),Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies

2018 - 2019  
Visiting PhD Research Student
London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), Department of Anthropology

2017 - 2018  
Junior Research Fellow
Leipzig University, Humanities Centre for Advances Studies "Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" https://www.multiple-secularities.de

2016 - 2017
Project Coordinator
Seed Money Project "Researching Secular and Religious Identities in Tandem", funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation Switzerland (SERI) via ETH Global and in cooperation with the Jahangirnagar University Department of Anthropology, (Bangladesh)

2015
Visiting Research Student
Jahangirnagar University, Department of Anthropology, (Bangladesh), preparation for my PhD project in Savar, Dhaka, and Sylhet https://www.isek.uzh.ch/de/ethnologie/forschung/archiv/researchingidentitiesintandem.html

2009 - 2010  
Student Research Assistant
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", University of Heidelberg

Teaching experience

Supervision
BA and MA thesis in Anthropology, University of Zurich 
(2016-2020)               

Seminar
Anthropology of the State (Ethnologie des Staates), University of Zurich (BA level, German, taught partially via digital means)
(Spring 2020)

Anthropological Perspectives on Bengal, University of Zurich (BA & MA level, German)
(Autumn 2016)

Nationalism, Religion and Identity Politics in Bangladesh, University of Zurich (BA level)
(Spring 2016)

Introductory Course: "Monographien" (Introduction to Social Anthropology), University of Zurich
(2015 and 2016)

Teaching Assistant, "Key Concepts of Anthropological Thinking", Prof Annette Hornbacher, Heidelberg University
(Summer 2012)

Teaching Assistant, "Introduction to Anthropology", Prof William Sax, Heidelberg University
(Summer 2009)

Languages

German: native speaker
English: fluent
Bengali: advanced in speaking, intermediate in writing, reading
Japanese: basic
Hindi: basic
Spanish: basic