2012 – cont.:   Chair of the Work Group Medical Anthropology, subsection of the German Anthropological Association

2012 – cont.:   Member of Somatechnics Research Network, Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona, USA

2010 – 2012:   Vice-chair of the Work Group Medical Anthropology, subsection of the German Anthropological Association

2010 – cont.:   TvT: Transrespect Versus Transphobia Worldwide. Member of Advisory Board.

2009 – 2011:   Vice-chair of the Work Group Gender Studies, subsection of the German Anthropological Association

2007 – cont.:   Liminalis. Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and Resistance. Member of the Editor’s Advisory Board.

2006 – cont.:   European Association of Social Anthropologists

2004 – 2009:   Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development

1999 – cont.:   German Anthropological Association

1999 – cont.:   German Society for Medical Anthropology