Since 10/2021 |
Lecturer for Tamil, South Asia Institute, University Heidelberg |
10/2020-09/2021 |
Adjunct, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin |
10/2014-09/2020 |
Junior-Professor for Muslim Culture and Society in South Asia, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
10/2011-09/2014 |
Lecturer for Tamil Language and Culture, Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Universität Göttingen |
Since 10/2009 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows”, University of Heidelberg |
10/2007-07/2009 |
Academic Employee, Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Insitute, University of Heidelberg |
09/2006-03/2007 |
Academic Employee, Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen; responsible for cataloguing Tamil manuscripts for the Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections |
06/2007 |
PhD degree (“The Impact of Being Tamil on Religious Life among Tamil Muslims in Singapore”; supervisor: Ulrike Niklas) |
01/2003-06/2007 |
PhD student in South Asian Studies at National University of Singapore |
06/2002 |
Master degree from Cologne University |
07/1999-06/2000 |
Exchange Student at Pondicherry University |
10/1996-06/2002 |
Student of Indology, Social Anthropology and Comparative Religion at Cologne University |