Biography
| since 2023 | Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Humanities |
| since 2020 | Professor of Islamic History and Culture, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tübingen |
| 2018-2020 | Professor of Arabic Studies, Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2016-2018 | SNSF professor, Insitute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies, University of Zürich Project: "Between Religion and Alchemy. The scholar Ibn Arfa‘ Ra’s (d. 1197) as a model for an integrative Arabic literary and cultural history“ |
| 2015 | Habilitation, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Venia legendi: Arabic and Islamic Studies Thesis: „Wissensvermittlung im Gespräch. Eine Studie zu klassisch-arabischen Dialogen“ ("Talking for the transfer of knowledge. A study into Classical Arabic dialogues") Oral presentation: „Palästina als Frau? Nation und Gender bei Maḥmūd Darwīš“ ("Palestine as a woman? Nation and gender in the work of Maḥmūd Darwīsh") |
| 2008-2018 | Junior professor of Arabic, Freie Universität Berlin (positiv evaluation: 2011; on leave 2016-2018) |
| 2007-2008 | Scholarship for Advanced Research from the Swiss National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford |
| 2001-2007 | Junior Lecturer (“wissenschaftliche Assistentin”) for German Literature up to 1700 Institute for German Studies, University of Zurich |
| 2005 | Doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.), University of Zurich PhD thesis: “Das Geheimnis der Geheimnisse. Die arabischen und deutschen Fassungen des pseudo-aristotelischen Sirr al-asrār / Secretum secretorum” (referees: Prof Paul Michel, Prof Ulrich Rudolph) |
| 1994-2000 | Studied German, Arabic, and Philosophy (Universities of Zürich, Tübingen and Birzeit) |