Saarland University
From 2002 to 2009 he was also Professor at the Musicological Institute of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and since 2009 Guest Professor at the "Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas" in Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico). In 2004 he earned his Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Venia legendi/Habilitation) in ethnomusicology and popular music research at the Saarland University (Germany) with a professorial dissertation (Habilitationsschrift) on Marimbas in Latin America.