EDUCATION
2006-2011 PhD: Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht University & United Nations University, The Netherlands Thesis: Tuberculosis in India: A Case of Innovation and Control
2006-2007 PhD training programme Innovation Studies and Development, UNU-Merit, NL
1999-2005 Lic. Phil. Communication Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Erasmus exchange to Free University & Humboldt University, Berlin (2002-2003)
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Since 2020 Associate Professor at the Department of Health, Ethics & Society/ Research School CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences, Maastricht University, NL
2011-2020 Assistant Professor at the Department of Health, Ethics & Society/ Research School CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences, Maastricht University, NL
Since 2018 Associate Member McGill International TB Centre, McGill University, Canada
Since 2016 Consultant for FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics), Geneva
2013 Visiting researcher at Institute of Public Health, Bangalore, India
2012, 2013 Visiting researcher at University of Cape Town, South Africa
2007- 2009 Visiting researcher at CRISP, Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy, Hyderabad, India
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2015 VENI award, for the project “Fighting global infectious diseases locally” from NWO (Dutch Science Foundation)
2007-2010 Doctoral fellowship for PhD project “Innovation dynamics in TB control in India” from UNU-Merit, United Nations University & Maastricht University
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Since 2011 I have developed and executed several courses (problem based learning) and been a core team member improving the Global Health Master’s of Science at Maastricht University: Coordinator specialization track Implementing Health Care Innovations; Coordinator, lecturer and tutor for Governing health in a global context, Making innovations work in different contexts; Tutor for Critical policy analysis and project management in Global Health, and for Qualitative research methods
2013 Lectures and workshops on qualitative research at Institute of Public Health, Bangalore
Since 2012 Faculty at annual Advanced Tuberculosis Diagnostics Research Course and at Global Health Diagnostics Course (2016), McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health, McGill University, Canada
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
Since 2017 Course director (together with Amrita Daftary) of an annual, weeklong international workshop on Qualitative Methods in Global Infectious Diseases Research at the McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Canada
2016-2017 Co-organizer of Postgraduate Workshop on Qualitative Data Inquiry & Analysis at the Union World Conference on Lung Health (Liverpool, UK 2016, Guadalajara, Mexico 2017).
2013 International research workshop and research network launch “Global Health and Science & Technology Studies”, hosted at Maastricht University in collaboration with Salla Sariola & Patricia Kingori, Oxford University, UK
Co-organization of panels at international conferences (EASST, STS conference Graz, Union world conference on lung health)
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Since 2011 Faculty member, Department of Health, Ethics & Society, Maastricht University
Since 2017 Academic board member of the multi-faculty Maastricht Centre for Global Health Research and Training, Maastricht University
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
Editor: Since 2016, associate editor for International Journal of Tuberculosis & Lung Disease (IJTLD); since 2017, academic editor for PLOS ONE
Reviewer for journals and national funding associations: Science as Culture; Science, Technology & Human Values; Critical Public Health; Bulletin of the World Health Organization; PLoS ONE; The Lancet Global Health; Health Policy & Planning; BMJ Global Health; The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; BMC Public Health, BMC Infectious Diseases; National Research Foundation South Africa; The Wellcome Trust, UK; Economic and Social Research Council, UK
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 2007 Society for Social Studies of Science
Since 2007 European Association for the Studies of Science & Technology
Since 2008 Indian Association for Social Sciences & Health
Since 2013 Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology & Modern Culture