Memberships

Board member, spokes person:

• Since October 2026 as the University Equality Officer, a member of the Senate and the University Board of the University of Tübingen (previously: full membership of both bodies, first in the Senate, then in the University Board)
• Landesvertretung Akademischer Mittelbau an den Universitäten in Baden-Württemberg (LAM-BW), https://www.lam-bw.de: spokesperson (2020-2025) or deputy spokesperson (2016-2020, since 5/2025)
• Deutsch-Indische Kulturgesellschaft e.V. Tübingen (DIKG;  2003-2025 elected board member, 2003-2013: president)
• Representative of the German University Association (Deutscher Hochschulverband DHV) at the University of Tübingen

Jury member:

• 2020 – 2024: Deputy speaker of the DFG (German Research Foundation) Review Board 106 “Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies”
• 2014: Appointment by the Board of the Indo-German Society (DIG) as a member of the jury for the award of the Rabindranath Tagore Culture Prize

Advisory board member:

• Hermann-Gundert-Gesellschaft e.V.
• 2020-2026: Member of the advisory board of the international multi-religious music festival Musica Sacra International
• Member of the advisory board des Indian Theatre Journal (ITJ)

Founding member:

• Deutsch-Indisch-Srilankisches Kulturforum e.V. (DISK)

Ordinary member:

• Association for Asian Performance (AAP)
• Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde e.V. (DGA), Arbeitskreis Neuzeitliches Südasien
• Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), Sektion Indologie
• Deutsch-Indische Kulturgesellschaft e.V. Tübingen (DIKG)
• Dravidian Linguistics Association, Trivandrum
• European Association for South Asian Studies e.V. (EASAS)
• Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Museums der Universität Tübingen MUT e.V. (Freunde des MUT)
• Literaturforum Indien e.V.
• International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS)
• Universitätsbund Tübingen (Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität Tübingen e.V.)