Academic Positions
Since 2016
Head of Department ‘Social Sciences’ & member of Extended Directorate, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Since 2015
Professor (W2) for 'Social Sciences in the Marine Tropics', Institute of Sociology, University of Bremen (UB) & Head of Research Group “Development & Knowledge Sociology”, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
2014 – 2015
Professor (W2) & Director, Department of Political and Cultural Change, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
2006 – 2014
Research Fellow, Department of Political and Cultural Change, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
