Year |
Academic appointments and education |
2019 to present |
Chair of Japanese Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich |
2016 - 2019 |
Visiting Professor at Waseda University’s Graduate School for Asia Pacific Studies (GSAPS) |
2018/03 |
Visiting Scholar at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) |
2016 - 2017 |
Visiting Professor at Kyūshū University’s Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society |
2013 |
Visiting Professor at Chūō University's Law School |
2009 - 2019 |
Professor for Japanese politics and society in the Institute for Asian and African Studies at the University of Hamburg |
2005 - 2009 |
Research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ); Lecturer for Political Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University (2006-2009); DIJ Deputy Director (2007-2008) |
2003 - 2004 |
Postdoctoral scholar in the East Asia Program at Cornell University, funded by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Fritz-Thyssen Foundation; Postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Law and Letters at the University of the Ryukyus, funded by JSPS (fall 2004) |
1998 - 2002 |
Doctoral student of Japanese Studies at the University of Hamburg, Doctoral scholarship by the German National Merit Foundation (1999-2002), Research stay at the German Institute for Japanese Studies on a DIJ grant (1999-2000), Dr. phil. from the Department for Oriental Studies at the University of Hamburg (2002, magna cum laude) |
1997 - 2001 |
Lecturer for Japanese Language at the Forum for Language and Society of Japan, Lecturer for Japanese Studies at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-University (2000-2001) |
1992 - 1998 |
Student of Japanese Studies, Political Science and Sociology at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-University on a scholarship by the German National Merit Foundation (1995-1998), Student of Political Science in the Faculty of Law at Kyūshū University on a scholarship by Monbushō (1995-1996), M. A. from the Department of Philosophy at Munich University (1998) |