Profile
Abstract
I am an African studies’ specialist trained in development economics with minors in anthropology and business management. I received my PhD from the Leipzig University in 2002 for a dissertation about the role of the Asian minority in development processes in Tanzania. After that, I worked for the postgraduate programme “Small Enterprise Promotion and Training” (SEPT) and the Leipzig University and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg. My research interests include development theory, sustainable and rural development, and imaginations of development facilitated by Information and communications technology (ICT)
Professional career
- 09/2001 - 11/2011
Senior Researcher, Institute of African Studies and International Programme “Small Enterprise Promotion and Training” (SEPT), U Leipzig, Germany - 06/2004 - 05/2010
Senior Researcher, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany - 12/2011 - 07/2012
Assistant Professor, Institute of African Studies, U Leipzig, Germany - 08/2012 - 07/2016
Senior Researcher, Centre for Area Studies (CAS), U Leipzig, Germany - since 08/2016
Scientific Coordinator, Collaborative Research Centre 'Processes of Spatialiaztion under the Global Condition' (SFB 1199), U Leipzig, Germany
Education
- 09/1989 - 07/1996
MA, African Studies, Anthropology and Business ManagementsU Leipzig, Germany & Leiden University, The Netherlands - 10/1996 - 01/2002
PhD, African Studies, U Leipzig, Germany
- Development theory
- History of economic development in Africa
- Rural development
- Technology and development
Development Economics
Social Capital
Knowledge Management
Research Methodology
Institutions & Development
The Economics of Sustainable Development
Entrepreneuship in Africa
Africa in the Knowledge Economy