- since Aug 2025 Visiting Professor at Harvard University, USA
- since Dec 2021 Full Professor at Utrecht University
- Sep 2015 - Nov 2021 Associate Professor at Utrecht University
- Feb 2011- Sep 2017 Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich
- 2007–2010 Senior research assistant at the University of Bonn
- 2005–2007 Postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2005 PhD at the University of Hamburg
- 2002 Master's degree (Part III) at Cambridge University