Bio & Degrees
Awards
2024 | Ph.D., Department of Japanese Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany Doctoral project: Negotiating Paradigms: Construing the Nexus of Mission, Collection, and Imperialist Agenda | 2025 | Awarded the Promotionspreis der Universität Tübingen 2025 Faculty Award for outstanding doctoral project of the University of Tuebingen, Germany, for the project Negotiating Paradigms: Construing the Nexus of Mission, Collection, and Imperialist Agenda | |||||||
2002-2008 | Relocations to Bonn (Germany) in 2002, Tokyo (Japan) in 2004), Zurich (Switzerland) in 2008 | 2001 | Awarded the Independent Researcher Scholarship Award for Japanese Art History by the Culture Communication Fund, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Research paper: Comparative development of early Shingon sculptural tradition in East Asia | |||||||
1999 | Master of Arts, w. first degree Distinction in History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS University of London | |||||||||
1998 | Bachelor of Art, History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS University of London | |||||||||
1995 | Bachelor of Art, Japanese Studies and History of East Asian Art, University of Heidelberg | |||||||||
School education in Japan (upper secondary education) and Germany (Abitur and Latinum) | ||||||||||
Languages | Native speaker of Japanese, German. Fluent on native level in English; working knowledge of European Neo-Latin languages and classical Latin, classical Japanese and Chinese |
