Scientific vita

• since 03/2011
  Professor of Human Geography (W3), Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen
• 04/2009 – 02/2011
  Acting Professor of Development Geography (W2), Institute of Geography, University of Bonn
• 04/2003 – 03/2009
  University Lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Geography,
  University of Freiburg
• 12/2002 – 03/2003
  Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Geography,
  University of Freiburg
• 12/2002
  Habilitation; habilitation thesis: “Globalisation, Vulnerability and Livelihood Security Problems in the Indian Software Metropolis of Bangalore”
• 12/1996 – 12/2002
  Research Assistant at the Institute of Cultural Geography,
  University of Freiburg
• 04/1995 – 07/1996
  Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Geography,
  University of Freiburg
• 02/1995
  Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.); doctoral dissertation: “Problems of Food Security and Social Vulnerability in a Peripheral High-Mountain Region (Northern Pakistan)”
• 10/1994 – 02/1995
  Lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Geography,
  University of Freiburg
• 10/1993 – 09/1994
  Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Geography,
  University of Freiburg
• 08/1990 – 09/1993
  Research Associate in the DFG Priority Programme “Cultural Area Karakoram”
• 1984 – 1990
  Magister degree programme at the University of Freiburg;
  subjects: Geography, Sociology and Ethnology