Master’s degree in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires; PhD from the University of Munich, venia legendi at the University of Freiburg (Germany). Cultural Anthropology Professor at different universities in Germany, specially (until her retirement 2013) at the Department of American Anthropology at the University of Bonn. Fieldworks in several regions, specially since 1983 among the Secoya (Western tucanoans) in Ecuador. Ethnographical and ethnohistorical publications on the western Amazonia.