since November 2016: Professor of General Educational Science - University of Kassel, Faculty 01 Human Sciences, Department of Education (IfE).
April 2010 to October 2016: Research Assistant at the MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of Philosophy III - Educational Sciences, Institute for Pedagogy
since 2006: Lecturer, teaching and project activities (TU Darmstadt, Institute for Teacher Training Mülheim/Ruhr, EFH Darmstadt, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, University of Bielefeld, Goethe University Frankfurt/M.)
August 2005 to July 2009: Doctoral scholarship holder of the Ev. Studienwerk Villigst e.V.
May 2003 to July 2005: Pedagogue in adult Education (Protestant Church of Hesse and Nassau)
April 2003 to March 2010: Doctoral studies at the TU Darmstadt, Department of Human Sciences, Institute of General and Vocational Education
1998 to 2007: Pedagogical honorary activities in the field of extracurricular youth education and adult education
October 1994 to March 2003: Studies in Religious Education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt; Master's degree at the Technical University Darmstadt (Education, Sociology, Protestant Theology)
September 1987 to September 1992: Training as communications electronics technician - DBP Telekom in Würzburg; communications electronics technician in the telecommunications construction district in Miltenberg.