2015 - Young Independent Groupleader, FU Berlin, Germany

2013 – 2015 Postdoctoral Scientist, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK.

2010 – 2013 FEBS long-term fellow, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK.

2008 – 2010 Postdoctoral Scientist, Cologne University, Institute of Genetics, Germany.

2004 – 2008 PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding research, Cologne, Germany.

2003 – 2004 EU Leonardo da Vinci fellow, James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK.

2002 – 2003 Diploma Thesis, Aachen University, Germany.