Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
2019-present Post-doc in the project SFB 1171 Affective Societies in the subproject “Sentiments of Bureaucracies: Affektive Folgen der digitalen Transformation in der deutschen Migrationsverwaltung” 2017-2019 Coordinator of the International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS – REMEP), 2 months fieldwork in Sudan on Technicisation of migration.
2010-2017
Dissertation at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on state formation processes in South Sudan. (October 2010-April 2012: Research on State formation processes in Sudan and South Sudan)
2003-2010
Studies at University of Tübingen, Germany; Free University Berlin and University of Potsdam
Major: Cultural Anthropology
Minors: Computer Science and Anthropogeography
Topic of Magisterthesis: Main Roads, Red Lines and sweet speeches – political discourses and perspectives on the North-South conflict in Sudan among students of the university of Khartoum
Sept. 2005 - Nov. 2006
Erasmus in Aix-en-Provence following Master classes in cultural anthropology
Fieldwork preparation
Dec. 2006 - April 2007
Fieldwork in Khartoum, Sudan.
Research topic: Political discourses and perspectives on the North-South conflict in Sudan among students of University of Khartoum
Language Skills
German: Native speaker
French; English: proficient
Spanish: independent user
Sudanese Colloquial Arabic: basic user