Curriculum Vitae
Academic Qualifications and Positions
Since 02/2024
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
10/2015 - 01/2024
Research Associate (A02) at CRC Affective Societies – Dynamics of Coexistence in Mobile Worlds and at the Working Area Anthropology of Emotions, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin.
09/2018 - 01/2022
Doctoral studies and degree as Dr. phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin.
10/2009 – 12/2013
Master's studies and degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin.
10/2006 – 09/2009
Bachelor's studies and degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology and Dutch-German Studies, University of Münster and Radboud University Nijmegen (NL).
Ethnographic and Interdisciplinary Field Research, Project Stays
10/2023 - 03/2024
Berlin, applied ethnographic research on current migration experiences between Vietnam and Germany with a multi-perspective view of the living realities of life for young migrants, the work of professionals and the Berlin administration.
04 - 05/2023
San Diego/USA, ethnographic field research on transnational commemorative practices and non-/belongings in the Vietnamese diaspora.
11/2021
Kraków/Poland, Interdisciplinary research stay with a focus on controversial cultural heritage sites in Nowa Huta and Auschwitz.
07/2019 - 09/2023
Berlin, ethnographic and interdisciplinary field research in the psychosocial carescapes of Viet-German life-worlds
04/2019
Orange County and L.A./USA, explorative research stay in Little Saigon on transnational lifelines in the Vietnamese diaspora.
2016 - 2019
Berlin, ethnographic and interdisciplinary field research in the psychiatric outpatient clinic for Vietnamese migrants at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and in the living environments of aging Vietnamese refugees.
2011 - 2012
Berlin, ethnographic field research in the living environments of Bosnian refugees, interdisciplinary collaboration with a psychologist.
Scientific Awards
2023
Successful application in the management function of the application-related scientific study "The New Vietnamese Berlin", funded by the Berlin-Lichtenberg district office.
Berlin der Begegnung, Network for outstanding young leaders from science, business, art and culture, Genshagener Kreis e.V.
2021
Stirling Award for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology, awarded together with Anita von Poser from the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) of American Anthropological Association (AAA) in honoration of the article “The Power of Shared Embodiment: Renegotiating Non/belonging and In/exclusion in an Ephemeral Community of Care” (Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 2020 (44): 610-628).
2018 - 19
DREAM Mentoring, Program for female doctoral candidates at the Dahlem Research School, Freie Universität Berlin.
Management and memberships
since 2019
Co-Speaker of the Working Group Psychological Anthropology, GAA
2019 - 2023
Co-Leader of the Working Group Affect & Care, CRC 1171 Affective Societies
since 2023
Selection member of the SPA Stirling Award Committee
2021 - 2024
Commission member Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Memberships in Professional Associations
German Anthropological Association (GAA)
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA)
Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA)
Member of the German-Israeli Research Network Migration, Religion and Medicine at State Margins