| seit 09/2020 | Full Professor W3 for Materials Synthesis at the Institute for Materials Science, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2019 – 2020 | Substitution Professor W2 at the Institute for Materials Science of the University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2017 - 2020 | W1 Professorship "Materials Design by Synthesis", Department of Materials Science, TU Darmstadt; positively evaluated in November 2019 |
| 2016 | Group Leader of an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group |
| 2013 - 2020 | Group Leader of the Joint Research Laboratory Nanomaterials, TU Darmstadt and KIT Karlsruhe, within the group of Prof. Dr. Horst Hahn |
| 2012 - 2013 | Postdoc studies at the University of Birmingham, School of Chemistry, UK, within the groups of Prof. Dr. Peter Slater, Prof. Dr. Frank J. Berry, and Dr. Adrian J. Wright |
| 2009 - 2012 | Ph. D. student within the group of Prof. Dr. H. P. Beck, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie und Radiochemie at Saarland University; passed with distinction (summa cum laude) |
| 2008 | Diploma thesis Prof. Dr. H. P. Beck, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie und Radiochemie at Saarland University |
| 2006 - 2007 | Advanced Research Projects at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, within the groups of Prof. Dr. P. R. Slater and Dr. S. E. Taylor |
2003 - 2008 | Studies of Chemistry at Saarland University (Intermediate Diploma passed with distinction, grade 1.2); Diploma passed with distinction, grade 1.0 | 2002 - 2003 | Civilian Service at the "Arbeiterwohlfahrt Ottweiler" | 1993 - 2002 | University-entrance diploma, Gymnasium Ottweiler, Saarland (final grade 1.5) | 1989 - 2003 | Elementary School at Schiffweiler, Saarland | 
