August 2013 - 2016
Co-Director of the University of Cologne Forum ‘Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe’

January 2011
PhD (with distinction) in Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne (permanently obtained 10/2014)

April 2009 - present
Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne

2007 - 2009
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Fellow, Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Havana

2006 - 2007
DAAD Fellow, Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Havana

2005
DAAD Fellow, Florida International University, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh