Curriculum Vitae

    Work Experience

• Since November 2007
  Research Associate, Orient-Institut Beirut/Lebanon.
• 2006–2007 and 2004–2005
  Research Associate, History of Old Age in Mamluk Times at the University of Bonn, financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

• 2005–2006
  Assistant Professor, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Münster.

• 2003–2004
  Research grant holder, History of Old Age in Mamluk Times at the University of Bonn, financed by the German federal land North Rhine-Westphalia.
• 2001–2003
  Post-doc research grant holder, The Role of the Marvelous (ʿadjāʾib), in Arabo-Persian Literature at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass./USA, financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
• 2000–2001
  Post-doc Research Fellow, Islamic Art in Modern Discourse - How is an Islamic Code used in the Discourse on Art? of the working group Modernity and Islam at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).
  
  
  
  Education

• 1999
  Ph.D. in Oriental Studies (magna cum laude) from the University of Bonn, Die Kosmographie des Qazwini. Entwicklung eines Weltbildes im 13. Jahrhundert.
• 1997–1999
  Graduate Studies of Oriental Studies and Oriental Art History at the University of Bonn.
• 1996–1997
  Graduate Studies of Oriental Studies at the Free University of Berlin.
• 1996
  M.A. in Oriental Studies (sehr gut) from the University of Bonn.
• 1992–1996
  Undergraduate Studies of Oriental Studies at the University of Bonn.
• 1991–1992
  Undergraduate Studies of Arabic Language and Literature at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples / Italy.
• 1989–1991
  Undergraduate Studies of Oriental Studies at the University of Bamberg.