Since 2014
Professor in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne. He was appointed within the framework of the key profile area “Socio-economic, Cultural, and Political Transformations in the Global South” at the University of Cologne, supported by the German Excellence Initiative

2006 - 2014
Professor in Economic Geography at the Institute for Economic and Cultural Geography, University of Hannover

2002 - 2006
Professor at the Geography Institute at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel

2001
Habilitation: Firm’s innovation behaviour and spatial proximity – The importance of cooperation networks in the Metropolitan Innovationssystems of Barcelona, Stockholm and Vienna, University of Hanover (in German)

1995
PhD: Transformation in Vietnam: Industrial change and regional consequences, University of Hanover (in German)

1991
Diploma thesis: Regional Impact of the World Exhibition 1992 in Sevilla, University of Hannover (in German)