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).

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.

Prior to my academic training, I had a career in administration and gained extensive work experience in different companies and branches of the economy and public sector. This still very much shows in my preference for working collaboratively with researchers and students and the way I organize myself and my projects. Both in my teaching and research, I encourage critical, inclusive, and sustainable approaches. This is also personally important to me, as I come from a non-academic family background. My preferred pronouns are she/her.