| 2015 - 2016 |
Substitute Professor for Prof. Frank Glorius at the university of Münster |
| 2011 |
Habilitation at the University of Cologne |
| 2007 - 2020 |
Group Leader at the MPI für Kohlenforschung, associated with the group of Prof. Benjamin List and the University of Cologne |
| 2004 - 2006 |
Postdoctoral research with Prof. Donna G. Blackmond at Imperial College London |
| 2000 - 2004 |
PhD with Prof. Michael Reggelin at the TU Darmstadt. |
| 1993 - 2000 |
Undergraduate studies at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |