Employment and research experience
since 09/2019 Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Associate professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences
since 04/2019 Stuttgart Media University, Germany
Research Fellow, Web-based Information Systems and Services, Faculty of Information and Communication
01/2015 – 09/2019 Leipzig University, Germany
W1 Juniorprofessor (assistant professor) of “Japan in the age of new and digital media”, Institute of East Asian Studies
04/2016 – 03/2017 Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Visiting professor, delivering a lecture (15 units) on “ビデオゲームの政治性 [Videogames as political media]”
08/2014 – 10/2014 Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, The Netherlands
Postdoc in the NWO funded project Beyond Utopia (Prof. Chris Goto Jones)
08/2010 – 08/2014 Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, The Netherlands
PhD student (employee status) in the NWO funded VICI-project Beyond Utopia (Prof. Chris Goto Jones), 08/2010 – 04/2011 and 05/2012 – 09/2014
05/2011 – 04/2012 University of Tokyo, Japan
research fellow with Prof. Yoshimi Shun’ya (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies)
Education
08/2014 PhD in Humanities at Leiden University, supervised by Prof. Chris Goto-Jones (Leiden University), and Dr. Florian Schneider (Leiden University)
Thesis entitled Disruptive Conflicts in Computopic Space: Japanese Sf Videogames as Sources of Otherness and Radical Political Imagination defended on Aug 27, 2014.
07/2009 M.A. (Magister Artium), Leipzig University and Waseda University (Japan)
subjects: Japanese Studies, Communication and Media Studies