Andreas Gruschke

Who is Andreas Gruschke?

Andreas Gruschke is a German author, photographer and Tibet researcher. His scientific background is that of a geographer, Sinologist and ethnologist. He received a 1990 M.A. at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and a Ph.D. in 2009 at Leipzig University.

Since 1987, Gruschke works as a free-lance writer and picture-journalist with the main topics Tibet, Himalayas, Silk Road and East Asia, holds lectures and seminars at his hometown Freiburg and other places. After finishing his university studies, he went on numerous research trips to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Central Asia, yet most of them led him to the highland of Tibet. From 2004 to 2012 he worked at Leipzig University, doing research on Tibetan pastoralists in eastern Tibet's Yushu area. Starting from 2012, he is a guest professor at the Institute of Social Development and Western China Development Studies at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Main research interest is the livelihood security of the rural population, namely pastoralists, in China's Tibetan areas.