Since May 2012: Professor at the Institute of Geography at the University of Graz and Research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig
2010: DAAD Short term Visiting Professor at the University of Sofia
2009–2012 Project coordinator at the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde Leipzig
2008-2009 Visiting Professor for Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
2005–2008 Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig
2003–2004 Research Associate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2003 PhD in Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1999 Research Associate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the Institute for Ecological Economics in Berlin
Until 1998 Studies of geography, economics and geography didactics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Institute of Geography and Regional Sciences