2017 Professor (W2) at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2013 - 2017 W1 Junior Professorship, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Since 2009 Group leader, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
2008 - 2009 Postdoc, Institute of Microbiology, Prof. Dr. Julia Vorholt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2004 - 2007 PhD (summa cum laude), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich and HHU Düsseldorf
2004 Dissertation for university degree (Diplom), Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
1999 - 2004 Degree in Biology (Diplom), Philipps University of Marburg, Germany