2012 – 2014
Visiting Professor Department of Geography, University of Yangon (resident)

2000 – present
Chair, Full Professor (C4) in Human Geography, University of Cologne

1998 – 1999
Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

1997
Gerhard Hess Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

1996
Habilitation University of Bonn

1991
PhD University of Münster (summa cum laude)