2006 - 2010 Project manager/ PI, Die institutionalisierten Gesisteswissenschafte im China der 1950er, In cooperation with Wang Weijiang (Fudan University Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai), Christine Gölz (Integrated European studies, University of Bremen), Sandra Dahlke (University of Hamburg), funded by the German Research Foundation
2000 - 2001
International aspects of national literature, Collaborative Research Centre: SFB 529
researcher; Project: Defining national identity on the basis of myth and modern historiography in China and Korea, University of Göttingen, funded by the German Research Foundation
1998 - 1999
Studies in the formation of modern Chinese scientific terminologies
researcher in the field of education, University of Göttingen, Erlangen, funded by the VW Foundation