
| 2021- | Professor (W3) Medical School OWL and Department of Chemistry, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| 2020 | Call to the Technical University Berlin for a W3 professorship |
| 2020 | Professor (apl.) Department of Chemistry |
| 2020 - 2021 | Staff Member Medical School OWL |
| 2019 | Research Stay at University of Jyväskylä, Finland (Center of Nanoscience) |
| 2016 | Research Stay at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA (Hoff Laboratory) |
| 2015 | Research Stay at MPI for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany (Schlichting Laboratory) |
| 2015 - 2020 | Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation Bielefeld University, Germany |
| 2012 - 2021 | Group Leader Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, Bielefeld University |
| 2011 | Habilitation in Physical Chemistry |
| 2006 - 2011 | Junior Research Group Leader Biophysical Chemistry, Bielefeld University, Germany Mentor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle |
| 2004 - 2007 | Helmholtz Young Investigator / Junior Research Group Leader Structural Biology, IBI-2, Research Center Jülich, Germany |
| 2004 | Postdoc at the University of Regensburg, Germany |
| 2000 - 2003 | PhD at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany "Photocycle of the LOV1 Domain of a Phot Blue Light Receptor Studied by Time-resolved Absorption Spectroscopy" Thesis Advisor: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Dick |
| 2000 | Diploma Degree in Chemistry |
| 1999 - 2000 |
Diploma thesis at the University of Marburg, Germany |
| 1998 - 1999 | Imperial College London, UK |
| 1995 - 2000 | Chemistry at the University of Marburg, Germany |
| Heisenberg Fellowship, German Research Foundation | |
| Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry | |
| PhD Thesis Award, E.ON-Kulturpreis Ostbayern |
| Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie - Vertrauensdozent | |
| Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker - Fachgruppe Photochemie | |
| Kolloid-Gesellschaft | |
| American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik | |
| European Photochemistry Association | |
| American Chemical Society |