Ute Wallenböck is a research associate at the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies at the University of Bonn. She has an academic background in Sinology and Tibetology, holding a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Vienna. Following her doctoral studies, she contributed to the “Sinophone Borderlands” project at Palacký University Olomouc and also worked in the Department of Chinese Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. Her research centers on the Sinophone and Tibetophone borderlands, along with the Tibetan diaspora in Asia and Europe, exploring topis of identity, memory, and the significance of food in the context of cultural transmission.