| Since 09/2010 | Professor of Empirical Research in Education at the University of Kassel |
| 2008-2010 | Research position at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), Project StEG: Study on the development of all-day schools |
| 2008 | Substitute professorship for school pedagogy at the University of Heidelberg |
| 2006-2007 | Substitute professorship for educational science at the Department I, Educational Sciences, of the University of Trier |
| 2006 | Habilitation at the University of Potsdam, teaching qualification in the field of educational science |
| 2005-2006 | Substitute professorship in the field of educational science with a focus on empirical school research at the Department of Educational Science, Human Sciences, University of Kassel |
| 2003-2005 | Research fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG), topic of the research project: Gender-specific processes of political identity formation in adolescence |
| 2001-2002 | Research assistant in the DFG-funded international research project "Political Socialization of Adolescents in the New Federal States of the Federal Republic of Germany (Brandenburg), in Israel and on the West Bank", University of Potsdam |
| 1995-2001 | Research assistant in the DFG-funded research project "Political Socialization of High School Students in Brandenburg," University of Potsdam |
| 1998 | Doctorate at the University of Potsdam, overall grade: magna cum laude; dissertation thesis: "Media Use and Political Socialization |
| 1993-1994 | Doctoral scholarship according to the law for the promotion of young researchers (NaFöG) at the FU Berlin |
| 1992 | Magister Artium (M.A.) at the Free University of Berlin, overall grade: very good |
| 1987-1992 | Studies of Educational Science (major), Psychology (minor) and Philosophy (minor) at the Freie Universität Berlin |
