Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius is professor of visual and media anthropology at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies and Principal Investigator of HaP. She heads the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project together with Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels, Ethno-Indologist at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, together leading a team of 20 based in Patan, Nepal and Heidelberg. With Dr. Arunava Dasgupta, urban designer at the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi and Sujan Chitrakar, Centre for Art and Design at Kathmandu University, she also leads the DAAD-funded themed network Urban Transformation and Placemaking: Fostering Learning from South Asia and Germany (2020–23). Since 2000, Christiane has studied changes in globalising cities, focusing on art production, cultural heritage, and intergenerational relations. 

In the context of Heritage as Placemaking, Christiane works on post-earthquake urban regeneration in Patan and Bhaktapur. With Dr. Monalisa Maharjan, she studies heritage activism and reconstruction contestations evolving around ritual water architecture (hiti) and semi-public arcaded resthouses (phalcā).