Since 10/2022 acting head of department IBI-4
2017-2022 deputy head of department IBI-4
Since 2017 Professor (apl) for experimental Physics at HHU - Düsseldorf
2011 - 2021 Manager/Coordinator of the EU funded research infrastructure projects (ESMI and EUSMI)
2012 - 2016 Coordinator of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Initial Training Networks SOMATAI.
2000 - 2022 Scienitfic staff member at Forschungszentrum Jülich
1992 - 2000 Scientific assistant at TU-Berlin, Physical Chemistry
1991 - 1992 Postdoc at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
1987 - 1991 PhD-student at Universitá La Sapienza, Rome, Italy and Albert-Ludwigs - Universität Freiburg