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Hello, Kuzuzangpola, and Tashi Delek,

I am a scholar in Tibetan and Bhutanese Studies and Professor of Tibetology (with TT) at Leipzig University at the Institute for South and Central Asian Studies.

At the moment, I am working on my next book about identity and nation-building processes in Bhutan, a country globally well-known for its Buddhism-induced sustainable development model of Gross National Happiness (GNH). My research is based on Tibetan and Bhutanese but also British colonial sources from the eighteenth century and will enable a new and more inclusive perspective on Bhutan’s history.

I received an M.A. in Tibetology, Classical Indology, and Political Science (2012) and a Ph.D. in Tibetology, both from Hamburg University, Germany (2017). Apart from Germany, I have studied, researched, and taught in Bhutan, India, Canada, and the UK. Before returning to Leipzig in 2022, I held a four-year teaching and research fellowship from the Khyentse Foundation at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. From 2022-2024 I worked as a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leipzig University, Germany.

As I built my academic career after extensive work experience in administrative positions in companies both in the economy and public sector via second-chance education (not having had a high-school degree) and also come from a non-academic family background, I am greatly committed to working collaboratively and inclusively in all my research projects and support students/young scholars from very diverse backgrounds on their very individual path as best as I can. My preferred pronouns are she/her.

And, I do love music very much, both listening and making it (violin/a bit of keys, maybe something else in the future if time permits). As such, of course, music (and the arts) are an integral part of my teaching pedagogy.