Since 2015
Professor of Microbiology at Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology at Berliner Hochschule für Technik (University of Applied Sciences)

2012-2014
Professor (subst.) of Microbiology at Freiburg University, Microbiology Department

2011-2012
visiting scientist at University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

since 2011
Apl. Professor at Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg

since 2010
Group leader at Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg

2004-2010
Assistant Professor in Molecular Biology at Technical University Berlin

2003
Habilitation in Molecular Biology at Technical University Berlin

1998-2003
Group Leader in Molecular Microbiology at Technical University Berlin, Department of Environmental Microbiology

1994-1997
Research Fellow (Post Doc) at CSIC, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Madrid, Spain (Erwin Schrödinger Post Doc fellow)

1994
PhD in molecular biology and biochemistry at Institute of Biotechnology, Technical University Graz

1982-1990
Study of biochemistry and food chemistry at Technical University Graz, Austria