married, three children
Academic positions
DFG-funded researcher at the University of Münster (from 11.2019)
Visiting Scholar at the American University of Rome (03.-04.2017)
Post-doc researcher at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2016)
Focus on Hindu-Christian dialogue
Member of the research group „Religiöse Pluralität als Herausforderung für Religionen und Gesellschaften“ (02.-09.2016)
Visiting fellow RIGG Rome (02.-07.2016)
Education/ Studium
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany: Promotionsstudium in Indologie und Religionswissenschaft (2015)
Dissertation: “Anekānta through the Ages: The Jaina Teaching of the Infinite Facets of Reality between Philosophy and Rhetorics”
University of Oxford, England: Master in Oriental Studies (2006)
Focus on classical Sanskrit and Indian philosophy
Dissertation: “Perception in the Early Nyāya School”
University of Stirling, Scotland: Bachelor (with Honours) in Philosophy and Religious Studies (2005)
Dissertation: “The Nyāya Darśana and its Relation to Western Logic and Scholarship”
Grants/ Stipendien
Arts and Humanities Research Council grant
Alumna of the LMU-Mentoring programme for excellent young scholars
DAAD grant for research in Karnataka/ India
Kultureller Förderpreis für Wissenschaft der Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft
Conference Travel Grants from the Volkswagenstiftung and European Academy of Religion
Membership/ Mitgliedschaft
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Cluj Center for Indian Studies
Alumna Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
Critical Religion Association
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft
ESITIS
Görres-Gesellschaft
Occurso- Institute for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue
Clubs and Associations
2011-2012
Charity Committee Coordinator, Cluj International Women's Club
2006
Student representative for the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) at Wolfson College, University of Oxford
2006
Founding member Religious Studies Society at the University of Oxford
2004-2005
Founding President Religious Studies Society at the University of Stirling
Teaching etc. / Lehre etc.
SS 2018
Hauptseminar "Hinduism and Christianity", University of Münster
2009-2010
Tutor for Sanskrit at LMU Munich
2009-2010
Academic support worker at LMU Munich
2008
Teacher at VHS Kempten
Course: „Sanskrit - die heilige Sprache Indiens“
2005-2006
Student support worker at the Oxford Brookes University
2004-2005
Student support worker at the University of Stirling
Conference and Workshop Organisation/ Konferenz- und Workshoporganisation
2019
Panel "800 years St. Francis and the Sultan: Implications for International Relations and Interreligious Dialogue",
European Academy of Religion conference
2018
Panel "Interreligious Dialogue and Global Politics", European Academy of Religion conference
2009
Negotiation Patterns and Processes in Addressing Key Challenges in Diverse Federal Contexts, University of Madras und LMU München in Kooperation mit dem Asian Centre for Peace and Development, Mettupalayam, Indien
2008
Japanklang, Seminar mit Konzert, Forum für Neue Musik, Oberstdorf
2007
Buddhist Attitudes to Other Religions, European Network for Buddhist-Christian Studies, Salzburg
Conference presentations and public lectures/ Konferenzpräsentationen und Vorträge
"Religion and Politics in the Vatican’s Involvement in Hindu-Christian Relations", European Academy of Religion conference, 3.2018 (conference presentation)
"Grußbotschaften als Medium Interreligiöser Begegnung", DVRW conference, 09.2017 (conference presentation)
"Die Botschaften des Päpstlichen Rats für den Interreligiösen Dialog zum Deepavali-Fest", Forschungskolloquien zum Religiösen Pluralismus, Seminar für Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie, WWU Münster, 24.07.2017 (presentation).
"The Use of Diplomatic Language in High-level Interreligious Dialogue: A Study of the Vatican’s Deepavali Messages", Ex Nihilo Conference, European Academy of Religion, Bologna, 18.-22.06.2017 (conference presentation).
"Food in Indian Religion", Graduate School of the American University of Rome, 13.04.2017 (lecture).
"Dialogue and Diplomacy: the Vatican’s Involvement in Hindu-Christian Relations", Popes on the Rise: Mobilization, Media, and Political Power of the Modern Papacy, Campo Santo Teutonico/ Rom, 23.03.2017 (conference presentation).
"Der Schmerz in der Musik", Dolorosa 17 - International Festival 'Forum für Neue Musik', 17.03.2017, Oberstdorf (public lecture).
"Meide Gewalt wie Dornen und Gift: Eine Einführung in die indische Religion des Jainismus", Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst- Diether Kunerth, Ottobeuren, 21.02.2017 (public lecture).
"Gedanken zur Landschaft in anderen Kulturen", Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst- Diether Kunerth, Ottobeuren, 04.08.2016 (public lecture).
"'Fest entschlossen, den Weg des Dialogs zu gehen"; Vatikan und ÖRK im high-level Dialog mit dem Hinduismus', Forschungskolloquien zum religiösen Pluralismus, Seminar für Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie, WWU Münster, 09.05.20116 (presentation).
„Limbile clasice si multiculturalismul contemporan“, Cluj Center for Indian Studies, UBB Cluj, 2015, (participant round table discussion).
„Indien und Europa- Gegenseitige Einflüsse am Beispiel des Jainismus“, ZEWI UBB Cluj, 2014 (lecture).
“Making Sense of Religion in IR. The Contested Practice of a Protean Term”, ECPR General Conference, mit Mariano Barbato, Bordeaux 2013.
“Marian Apparitions and Politics”, ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux 2013
"Anekantavada between Logic, Epistemology and Religion", Modern Formalisms for Pre-Modern Indian Logic and Epistemology, Hamburg, 2010 (conference paper)
“A view from somewhere else: Approaching the other in Religious Studies and Comparative Philosophy”, Buddhist Attitudes to Other Religions Conference, Salzburg, 2007 (student paper).