since April 2021 Assistant Professor, Institute for European Ethnomusicology, University of Cologne
since 2018 Coordinator for Germany, Creative Europe Project 'Orpheus XXI'
2017 - 2021 substitute Assistant Professor, Institute for European Ethnomusicology, University of Cologne
since 2009 Research Associate, Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM-CNRS), Paris, France
2014– 2016 Research Associate, Labexmed ATRI 5 project 'Un fil d'Ariane dans l'espace euro-méditerranéen: L'absence comme modalité d'appartenance', Laboratoire méditerranéen de sociologie, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France
1999 – 2010 freelance journalist, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, BR Klassik, MDR Figaro
2009 – 2017 lecturer in ethnomusicology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2007– 2010 researcher, Fritz Thyssen Foundation project 'Visual and Aural Representations of Albanian Identity’, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2007 – 2009 Graduate Scholarship, Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt
2007– 2012 Doctoral Studies in ethnomusicology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, France
1999 – 2005 Master Studies in musicology, art history and history, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg