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Experience
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Professional Timeline
2021 CRO (Chief Research Officer) CHILDREN OF TYPE LLP (Limited Liability Partnership) – Rethinking Education through Typography
2019 Supervisor at the Goethe Youth Camp of the Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe-Institute) Bengaluru, India
2016 – 2017 Research fellow (Qualifikationsstelle TV-L 13) at the Dept. of Anthropology of the Asia-Orient-Institute, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen
2016 – 2017 Lecturer at the Dept. of Anthropology, Asia-Orient-Institute, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen
2015 – 2016 Coordinator of Indo-German student exchange between Christ University Bangalore, and the Asia-Orient-Institute, University of Tuebingen, funded by the DAAD-program A New Passage to India
2014 – 2016 Assistant professor at Christ University Bangalore, India - Dept. of Languages / Applied Sociology
2014 – 2014 Supervisor for Indian students of the fast-track-programme (Studienbrücke) of the Goethe-Institute Bengaluru, India
2013 Co-creator video portfolio: Digital Humanities at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe Heidelberg University
2009 – 2012 Research assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 619) Ritual-dynamics of the DFG Foundation
2006 – 2008 Research assistant at the department of Anthropology of the South-Asia-Institute of the University of Heidelberg
2003 – 2004 Civil service: health-care at the surgery ward of the Stiftungsklinik, (municipal hospital) in Weißenhorn, Germany
Academics and Education
2016 onwards - PhD fellow at the faculty of Humanities, Asia-Orient-Institute, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen – Subject: Social and Cultural Anthropology Dissertation Title: Academic Entrepreneurs – Changing Student Identities in Indian Higher Education
2017 – 2021 PhD scholarship at the graduate academy Entangled Temporalities in the Global South granted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS) funded by the federal graduate sponsorship program Baden-Württemberg (Landesgraduiertenförderung)
2017 - 2018 Pedagogic training (Fit für die Lehre - Hochschuldidaktische Grundlagen 1+2) by the Federal Educational Development Unit for Teaching and Learning (HDZ)Baden-Württemberg at the University of Tuebingen
2013 M.A. graduation (1.6) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg Thesis: Playing Culture – Anthropological Perspectives on the Emergence of cultural Meaning in South Asian Childhood
2008 – 2009 ERASMUS Student-exchange to Université Paris IX, France Institut National des Langues at Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)
2008 – 2008 Language course: Tamil Summer School, Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, Pondicherry, India
2007 – 2007 Ethnographic research – fieldwork excursion to Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, coordinated by the Dept. of Anthropology at the South-Asia-Institute of the University of Heidelberg
2004 Enrolment at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg Subjects: Anthropology, Philosophy, Modern Indology
Language Skills
German: Native language
English: Mastery (C2) spoken, written
French: Advanced (B2) in spoken, written
Tamil: Intermediate (B1) in spoken, written
Hindi: Elementary (A2) in spoken, written
Extracurricular Activities
2017 Certificate course for non-motorised aviation @ AKA FLIEG
2010 – 2014 Founding member/chairman of Café ohne Grenzen e.V.
2005 – 2022 Rowing course he Univ. of Heidelberg/Tübingen
1997 Boat-sailing-licence (Grundschein) received at the Yachtschule Prien, Germany