• Since 2022: Professor of Intercultural Management, Furtwangen University
• 2019-2026: Lecturer, co-developer of the “Changing Societies” master’s programme, University of Basel
• 2018 – 2022: Postdoc and lecturer at the University of Basel, Cultural Anthropology, Fellow at the National Research Center “nccr – on the move”
  Project: “Perimeters of Multilayered Democratic Citizenship in a Mobile and Multicultural World”
• 2018: Fellow at the University of California San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
• 2017 – 2018: Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Basel, Cultural Anthropology; Fellow at the National Center of Competence in Research “nccr – on the move”; Project: “Comparative Case Study on Refugees at Universities in Mulhouse (F), Freiburg (D), and Basel (CH)”
• 2012 – 2016: Research assistant and lecturer, doctoral thesis in cultural anthropology, University of Basel
  Title: “Mobile Entrepreneurs. An Ethnographic Study of the Migration of the Highly Skilled”
• 2011: Coach and consultant since 2011 (coaching training according to E.C.A.)
• 2008 – 2010: Senior Consultant, Director Asia Pacific at the international management consulting firm E.R.P. GmbH, Beijing office
• 2005 - 2007: MA in European Ethnology, University of Iceland
  Title: “Parallel Worlds: Fieldwork with Elves, Icelanders, and Academics”
• 2000 – 2005: Studies in cultural anthropology, languages, and economics at Freie Universität Berlin
• 1995 – 1998: College and high school in India; religion and philosophy; United Theological College, Bangalore

Research areas

Migration and mobility, citizenship, voting rights, undocumented mobility, displacement and asylum, students with refugee backgrounds, organizational ethnology/business anthropology, and startup entrepreneurship

Teaching areas

Culture: Competence and communication, diversity, migration, academic writing, qualitative and ethnographic research methods