Since 2019
Equal Opportunities Officer of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cologne
Since 2018
Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Cologne
2014
Visiting Professorship, Dartmouth College/United States
2011-2018
Professor of Islamic Studies/Islamic Theology, Deputy Director of the Academy of World Religions, University of Hamburg
2010-2011
Assistant Professor, UFSP Asia and Europe at the University of Zurich for the study of the modern Islamic world with a focus on Iran
2010
Habilitation, University of Bonn, God's Rights and People's Power. Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari's Secular Version of Islam. Venia legendi for Islamic Studies.
2009
Lecturer at the Jesuit School of Philosophy in Munich
2003-2005
Emmy Noether Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2005/ 2006 and 2002
Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
2007-2008
Research Fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung (Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
2000-2001
Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2000
Doctorate, University of Bamberg, The Depoliticisation of Islam: Abdolkarim Soroush's Thought and Impact in the Islamic Republic of Iran
1996-2000
Doctoral studies in Iranian Studies at the University of Bamberg (minor subjects: Islamic Studies and Political Science)
1996-1999
Doctoral scholarship in the DFG-Research Training Group for Contemporary Oriental Studies at the Universities of Erlangen/ Bamberg
1996
Master's Degree in Islamic Studies
1994-1995
DAAD scholarship in Tehran
1990-1994
Studied Islamic Studies and Political Science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
