2014 - 2019: Researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Winter semester 2017/2018, summer semester 2018: Visiting professor in the degree program history and journalism, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2009 to 2014: Research associate at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH) with a postdoctoral project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [German Research Foundation] on physicians in the anti-nuclear peace movement in the 1980s who were organized in the West German affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
2011: Fellowship at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
2010: Master of Higher Education (MoHE) from the Centre for Higher Education Didactics (ZHW) at the University of Hamburg
2006 to 2009: Research associate in the Department of History at the University of Hamburg
2009: Doctorate from the Department of History at the University of Hamburg, titled "The Enemy Is Not on the Right or on the Left: It Is Inside Us": The Journal "Das Gewissen" under the Aegis of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, 1919-25 – A Biographical and Bibliographical Intellectual and Media History of the Publisher and His Authors.
2008: Fellow at the German Literature Archive in Marbach
2000 to 2005: Study of modern and medieval history and political science at the University of Hamburg, completion of a Master’s degree
1993 to 2000: Work experience