I joined the Faculty of Arts as Professor in Development Studies in December 2013 Climate mobilities and mobility justice Climate change adaptation and community resilience Post-disaster response and recovery Tourism-induced displacement Land and resource grabbing, resistance and restitution Participatory approaches to research and development Ethics and governance in the food-water-energy nexus Faculty of Arts Leadership in Teaching and Learning Excellence Award (2019) Faculty of Arts Research Excellence Award (2018) Visiting Fellow - East-Wester Center Honolulu, Hawai'i (2017) Visiting Fellow - University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (2017) Prime Minister's Scholarship for Asia: Group Programme (2015) Outstanding Author Contribution Award from Emerald Publishing Group (2014) Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (2009) Research Award of the Stuttgarter Hofbräu Foundation, Germany, for Outstanding Scientific Achievements within the Thai-Vietnamese German Collaborative Research Centre (Uplands Program - SFB 564) “Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia” (2003) Josef G. Knoll Science Award of the Eiselen Foundation, Ulm, Germany, for Outstanding and Applicable PhD research in the Field of Hunger Alleviation (1998)