Benjamin Baumannis a transdiciplinarily working anthropologist focussing on Mainland Southeast Asia. He is currently postdoctoral associate at the Anthropology Department of Heidelberg University. Trained as a socio-cultural anthropologist at Free University Berlin, he holds a PhD in Southeast Asian studies from Humboldt University in Berlin, where he was working until April 2020 as Assistant Professor and research fellow in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies.