since 2014 Senior Scientist and head of group Aerosol Chemistry at the ICE-3: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich
2010-2013 Postdoctoral researcher, Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, USA
2009 Postdoctoral researcher, ICG-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich
2009 Ph.D. (magna cum laude) in physics at the University of Wuppertal
2006-2009 PhD student, ICG-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich
2005 Diploma (grade 1.7) in Physics from Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn
1996-2005 Studies of physics, Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn