| 2012-2014 |
Executive Director of the South Asia Institute |
| Since 2007 |
Head of Department and Professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures (Modern Indology) at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University |
| 01/2006 |
Habilitation at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Sufism, Saint Veneration and Bengali Islam: The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong) |
| 04/2004-03/2007 |
Supervisor of a research group funded by the Volkswagen Foundation on Nationalist Ideology and the Historiography of Literature in South Asian Cultures at the Institute of Indologie and South Asian Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg |
| 04/1995-03/2004 |
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Indologie and South Asian Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg |
| 07/1997 |
PhD degree (Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's Srimadbhagabadgita: Translation and Analysis; supervisor: Rahul Peter Das) |
| 09/1992 |
Master degree from the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg |
| 10/1988-09/1992 |
Studied Indology and Social Anthropology at Heidelberg University |
| 10/1986-08/1988 |
Studied Indology, Philosophy and Journalism at Hamburg University |
