Resident of the Swiss Anthropological Association
Chair of the European Society for Oceanists
Field research in the Philippines in the context of the research project "De-Kinning and Re-kinning? Estrangement, Divorce, Adoption and the Transformation of Kin Networks" (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea in the context of a research project on International capital and local inequality: A longitudinal ethnography of the Wampar under the impact of a copper-gold mine and a timber biomass energy plant (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
Guest professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna
Joint headship – with Prof. Dr. Martina Caroni and Prof. Dr. Stephanie Klein – of the University Research Priority group "Family Change in the Context of Migration and Globalisation" at the University of Lucerne
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea in the context of a research project on International capital and local inequality: A longitudinal ethnography of the Wampar under the impact of a copper-gold mine and a timber biomass energy plant (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
Co-editor of "Sociologus. Journal for Social Anthropology"
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea on mining and social transformations
Leibniz-Chair at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT, Bremen)
Member of the ZiF research group "The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition. Re-Integrating Anthropology into the Cognitive Sciences", Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University
Field research in the Philippines, focusing on the use of Social Network Sites and among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea on interethnic relations and transcultural kinship (funded by the Swiss National Sience Foundation)
Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea, focusing on a) interethnic relations and b) the senses in their cultural context (funded by the German Research Foundation)
Heisenbergstipendium, Fellowship of the German Research Foundation
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea and in The Philippines (Bohol, Zentral-Central Visayas) (funded by the German Research Foundation)
Fellowship of the Maecenia Foundation (Frankfurt), for a Study of Women researchers in German Anthropology
Visiting lecturer, Cultural Studies, University of Lüneburg
Habilitation at University of Hamburg; Thesis Concepts of the body in interethnic relations and theories of race
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea and in The Philippines (Bohol, Central Visayas) (funded by the German Research Foundation)
Field research in Loay, Bohol (The Philippines); filming & photography of Easter celebrations
Habilitation stipend from the German Research Foundation for the project: "Physical differences in interethnic relations and their meaning for theories of race."
Prize 1997 of the Hamburg Science Foundation (Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung)
Field research in The Philippines (Bohol, Central Visayas) on: "The Ati: Interethnic relations and survival strategies among an ethnic minority;" and among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea (funded by the German Research Foundation)
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the German Research Foundation
Field research in The Philippines (Grant from the Hamburg Science Foundation)
Ph.D in Anthropology, University of Hamburg; Thesis: German-Philippines marriages; matrimony and the migration of women.
Field research in The Philippines on interethnic marriage and migration (Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD)
Doctoral Stipend from University of Hamburg
Research on marriage migration in the Philippine community in Hamburg
Masters Thesis: Anthropological work on interethnic marriage in pre-industrial societies.
Studies in Anthropology, Spanish & Folklore, University of Hamburg
Born in Frankfurt- am- Main, Germany
Editorial board of "Paideuma. Zeitschrift für Kulturkunde"
Scientific committee of the SEG (Swiss Ethnological Society)
Editorial board of "Asia Pacific Anthropology"
Co-editor of "Sociologus", member of the editorial board since 2006
www.duncker-humblot.de
ZiF Research Group "The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition", Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Universität Bielefeld.
Editorial board of "Methoden-Lexikon für die Sozialwissenschaft". VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden
Board of the SEG (Swiss Ethnological Society)
Research group, "Borders and crossings" of the Young Academy of the the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Member of The Young Academy of the the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Junge Akademie der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina)
AAA (American Anthropological Association)
ASAO (Association of Social Anthropologists in Oceania)
DGV (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde)
Esfo (European Society of Oceanists)
SEG (Schweizer Ethnologische Gesellschaft)