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Professional Experience
2024 Liaison lecturer at the Heinrich Böll Foundation
2023 Women's Representative of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education: www.uni-passau.de/frauenbeauftragte
2022 Renaming of Chair to Critical Development Studies - Southeast Asia (http://asien.asienforschung.de/principles-of-critical-development-studies-a-minifesto/)
2017-2018 Visiting Professor, Atma Jaya University Yogyakarta Indonesia
Since 2013 Chaired Professor, Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies esp. Southeast Asia, University of Passau
2010–2013, Research Group Leader, Leibniz University Hannover, Social-Ecological Research BioDIVA – Transformation Knowledge for Equitable and Sustainable use of Biodiveristy
2003–2008 Assistant Professor, Chair of Resource Economics, Humboldt University, Berlin
2001–2003 Research Fellow, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
1996–2000 Research Fellow, Institute of Rural Development, Agricultural Faculty, University of Göttingen
Education
2009 Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification Rural Sociology (Habilitation), Humboldt University Berlin
2000 Dr. sc. agr., Rural Sociology, University of Göttingen
1996 Dipl.-Ing. agr. Agricultural Engineer, University of Göttingen
1989–1991 International Agricultural Sciences, Technische Universität Berlin
Selected Awards and Grants
2018-2022 EU Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and cOmmunity (Innovative Training Network)
2016–2021 BMBF Grant IndORGANIC (Bioeconomy)
2015 DFG Grant IndSEARCH (International Cooperation)
2009–2013 BMBF Grant BioDiva (Research for Sustainable Development)
2004–2008 EU Grant Sensor: Institutional Analysis of Modelling Tools for Sustainable Land Use Policies
2005 – 2007 BMZ Grant Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: Pastoralists in Ethiopia
1996-2000 GTZ Grant: Gender relations and agricultural Innovations in Northern Ghana
1996 Best Thesis Award, Gesellschaft der Freunde der Landwirtschaftlichen Fakultät Göttingen
Comparative Development Studies
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