since 2018 since 2016 since 2007	Head of “Sim and Data Lab Astro”, Forschungszentrum Jülich Guest scientist, Max-Planck_Institut for Radioastronomy, Bonn Associate Professor at the University of Cologne
2015 – 2018	Professor/Lecturer, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf
2011 – 2015	Head of Minerva Research Group at MPIfR, Bonn
2004- 2010	Lecturer (Hochschuldozent C2) at the University of Cologne
2001 – 2004	Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Cologne
2000 – 2001	Temporary Professor at the University of Cologne
2000	Habilitation at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
1996 – 2000	Habilitation Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, working at the Astrophysical Institut, University of Jena
1995 – 1996	Guest scientist at Max-Planck Research Unit ‘Staub in Sternentstehungsgebieten’, Jena
1990 – 1995	Research assistant at GSI in Darmstadt
1990 – 1993	Part-time lecturing at the Polytechnic Darmstadt
1989 – 1990	Research Assistant at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England.
1989	Research assistant at the University of Darmstadt
1989	PhD in Physics at University of Darmstadt
1986 – 1989	PhD student at the University of Darmstadt
1982 – 1986	Physics degree at the University of Darmstadt

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