2019
Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris
2016
Fellowship at International College Morphomata, Cologne
2013
Professor of Modern History, University of Cologne
2012
Visiting Professor, University of Mannheim
2009 – 2011
Senior Lecturer, University of Bielefeld
2010
Habilitation, Modern History, University BW Munich
2008
Senior research fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
2007
Lecturer, University BW Munich and research fellow, University of Pretoria, South Africa
2005 – 2006
Research fellow, University of Cambridge, UK, Imperial History and African History, Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
2001 – 2005
Lecturer, University BW Munich
2001
PhD, University of Munich, Modern History