PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
• March 2021
Professor of Sociology for global/transnational Mobility and Migration, University of Bielefeld
• Nov. 2018 – Feb. 2021
Senior research fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institut, Freiburg
• Feb. 2014 – Dec. 2019
Senior lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Monash University, Melbourne
• July 2011 – June 2014
McKenzie postdoctoral fellow at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
• Oct. 2010 – July 2011
Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ruprecht-Karl-University in Heidelberg
• Apr. 2010 – Sept. 2010
Postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, Berlin
• Apr. 2005 – Mar. 2006
Lecturer at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-University, Berlin
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS AND FIELDWORK
• Sept. 2017 – Feb. 2018
Lee Kong Chian Fellow at Stanford University and National University of Singapore
• Aug. 2015
Visiting fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik (SWP), Berlin
• Jan. – June 2012
Visiting fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta
• Sept. 2009
Visiting fellowship at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin
• Sep. – Oct. 2008
Visiting fellowship at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Carib-bean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, the Netherlands
• July – Aug. 2008
Fieldwork in Malaysia, Aceh, Sweden
• Nov. 2006 – Nov. 2007
Fieldwork in Malaysia, Aceh, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and USA
• Aug. 2006
Fellowship at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Stockholm
• Nov. 2006 – June 2007 Fellowship at the Peace Unit, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang (Malaysia)