Dr. Thamar Klein (Scientific Assistant) studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Educational Science and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 2000 to 2006 she worked as research fellow and leading junior scientist at the University of Cologne, where she received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Thamar Klein subsequently joined the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale from 2006 to 2009 as Postdoctoral Research Fellow and as of January 2009 simultaneously as Research Associate at the Somatechnics Research Centre, Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She serves on the editorial board of Liminalis and has been elected vice-chair of the Work Group Anthropological Gender Studies and the Work Group Medical Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association. Between 1998 and 2009 she taught at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany), the University of Cologne (Germany), the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town, South Africa), and the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). Thamar Klein joined the iFQ in January 2010.
Research interests: Science and Technology Studies, Methodological Triangulation, Social Networks, Globalisation/Glocalisation, Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Medical Anthropology
