Integrating contemporary topics and theory with historical expertise and innovative methodology, in-depth research in these regions is conducted in the fields of socio-cultural, historical, and medical anthropology as well as anthropology of art.
Current research topics are
- Early Tibetan burial mound culture
- Socio-cultural processes along old and new steppe and silk routes
- Mobility, nomadism and memory
- Forms of interaction and processes of transformation in the Himalayas and Central Asia
- Transfer of art, culture and knowledge in the past and present
- Contemporary Tibetan medicine/Sowa Rigpa throughout the region
- Materiality and material culture in Tibet
- Exile-Tibetan nationalism in India
- The Scientific Tibet Legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter