- Member of the DAAD-funded Research Collaborative on "New Directions in 'Active Ageing' and 'Age-Friendly Culture' in India and Germany", with JNU, Delhi (since 2016)

- Project Leader and Member of Mobile Spaces: Urban Everday Practices from a Transcultural Perspective, University of Heidelberg (2014-2015)

- Founder of 'Forum Urban Spaces' (since 2013)

- Project Leader of "Creating the 'New' Asian Woman: Entanglements of Urban Space, Cultural Encounters and Gendered Identities in Shanghai and Delhi", funded by HERA - Humanities in the European Research Area (since 2013)

- Founding Member of the Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching Network 'Archives of the Everyday', with the University of Leiden and University College London (since 2013)

- Speaker of Research Area B 'Public Spheres' at the Collaborative Research Centre/Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context (since 2012)

- Member of the European Research Initiative “Ritual, Media, and Conflict” (2007)

- Founding Member of Tasveer Ghar ("House of Pictures") (since 2006)

- Coordinator and Head of Subproject A4 "Agency and Territorial Rituals in India" at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) (since 2005)

- Member of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 619 "Dynamics of Ritual" (2002-2005)