| 2023 | Sabbatical (6 months) at University of Oxford, UK |
| 2022 - now | Professor (W3, full) at TU München |
| 2017 - 2022 | Professor (W3, associate) at TU München |
| 2013 - 2017 | Professor (W2, tenure track W3) at TU München |
| | Job offers: Frankfurt (2012, W2), TU München (2012, W2, tenure track W3), Mainz (2018, W3) |
| 2012 - 2013 | Postdoc in Daniel Huybrechts' group at Universität Bonn |
Habilitation November 2011 at Universität Düsseldorf
Thesis: Algebraic Surfaces and Geometry in Positive Characteristic
| 2011 - 2012 | Scientific assistant of Stefan Schröer at Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2009 - 2011 | Visiting scholar (2 years) at Stanford University, USA |
| 2004 - 2009 | Scientific assistant of Stefan Schröer at Universität Düsseldorf |
| Ph.D. | November 2004 at Universität Bonn |
| | Thesis: On Fundamental Groups Of Galois Closures Of Generic Projections |
| | Supervisor: Gerd Faltings |
| 2001 - 2004 | PhD student at Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn |
| Diploma | July 2001 at Universität Göttingen |
| | Thesis: Singular Abelian Covers Of Algebraic Surfaces |
| | Supervisor: Fabrizio Catanese |
| 1999 - 2001 | Scholarship from Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 1998 - 1999 | Erasmus Student (1 year) at University of Warwick, UK |
| 1996 - 2001 | Undergraduate studies at Universität Göttingen |