since 2017: Honorary Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
since 2014: Director, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
2012–2014: Associate Director, Digital Library Programmes and Information Technologies, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK
2009: Awarded German Library HiTech Price (Emerald Publishing)
2007–2011: CIO (Chief Information Officer) for Scholarly Information at Bielefeld University / Bielefeld University Library, Germany
2006–2007: EU Project Manager, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
2005–2006: Head of Publishing Services, Academic Library Center hbz, Cologne, Germany
2002–2004: Dr. phil. nat., Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Germany. Doctoral Thesis: “Explaining Brains by Simulation”
1998–2004: Research Assistant in Neurobiology and manager of numerous projects on “Educational Simulations in Neural and Cognitive Sciences”, Bielefeld University, Germany
1993–1998: Diploma in Biology, Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Germany. Specialisation: Computational Neuroscience