| since June 2012 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2012 | Doctorate in Social Science, University of Cologne; thesis "Financialising Poverty: The Transnational Political Economy of Microfinance’s Rise and Crises" |
| Aug. 2010-Feb. 2011 | Visiting Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University |
| Oct. 2008-May 2012 | Doctoral Researcher, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2007-2008 | MPhil, Development Studies, Darwin College, University of Cambridge |
| 2003-2006 | BA, Economics with Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton |