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Professional Experience
since 2024 Liaison lecturer at the Heinrich Böll Foundation
since 2023 Women's Representative of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education: https://www.uni-passau.de/en/womens-representatives
2022 Renaming of Chair to Critical Development Studies - Southeast Asia https://asienforschung.de/article/principles-of-critical-development-studies-a-minifesto/
2017-2018 Visiting Professor, Atma Jaya University Yogyakarta Indonesia
Since 2013 Chaired Professor, Chair of Critical Development Studies 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
Awards and Grants, International research experience
2026 BMEL Agroecological Innovations for Territorial Markets. YOUNGSTARS – Youth and Social Innovation in Indonesia and Vietnam. 1.050.000 €, approved – not financed
2023 member of International River Cities Network, IAAS Leiden
2018-2022 EU-ITN Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and cOmmunity 500.000 €
2016–2020 BMBF Bioeconomy Grant IndORGANIC with Universitas Indonesia 800.000 €
2018-2025 BayIntAn: Initiation of International Collaborations: Cameroon; Vietnam; Ghana
2015 DFG International Cooperation Grant IndSEARCH 50.000 €
2009–2013 BMBF SÖF/FONA Grant BioDiva with MSSRF India (1.600.000 €
2007 ILRI International Food and Livestock Research Institute, Ethiopia (1 m)
2006 IFPRI International Food and Policy Research Institute, Washington DC USA (2 m)
1996-2000 GTZ Grant: Gender relations and agricultural Innovations in Ghana 250.000 DM
1996 Best Thesis Award, Gesellschaft der Freunde der Landwirtschaftlichen Fakultät Göttingen
1995 Government of India Scholarship, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (6 m)
since 2013 Host for researchers from the Netherlands, USA, Ghana, India, Czech Republic, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand
Comparative Development Studies
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