André received his PhD from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and has worked previously at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle, the ZIF – Center for Advanced Studies Bielefeld, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest and at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU Budapest.
His research interests include kinship, economics, political and environmental anthropology, with a focus on global value chains, infrastructures and the welfare state in the post-Yugoslav and post-Soviet semi-peripheries.