2004–present: Research fellow at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, associated with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
2000–2004: Researcher and spokeswoman of the team of scholars that created the exhibition Crimes of the German Wehrmacht: Dimensions of a War of Annihilation, 1941–1944
1999–2000: Research project within the framework of the Hochschulsonderprogramm (Special University Funding Program) at the University of Hamburg
1998: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bielefeld
1995–1998: Completion of doctoral degree at the University of Hamburg (doctoral thesis: Patterns of Memory: Methodological Issues and Biographical Interviews with Survivors of Concentration and Death Camps)
1991–1995: Academic staff, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
1990–1991: Staff member, Education Program of the Hamburg Museums
1983–1989: Studied history, theology, and education at the University of Münster