Since 10/2018: Research Fellow of the project „al-Gharb“. Terminological Enquires into the Emergence of a Culturalist Conception of the West in the Arabic- Islamic Sphere (16th-19th cent.); University of Konstanz. 10/2017–09/2018: Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for Islamicate Intellectual History, 12th-16th centuries, Bonn. 10/2016–09/2017: Parental leave. 10/14–09/16: Interim Professor for Oriental Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. 04/2013–10/2015: Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Islamic Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. 03/2012–04/2016: Research Fellow in the DFG network „Transcultural Entanglement(s) in the Medieval Euromediterranean (500-1500). 08/2011–10/2012: Coordinator of the Bamberg Graduate Schools of Near and Middle Eastern Studies (BaGOS) and for Medieval Studies (BaGraMs). 10/2011–9/2012: Lecturer at the Department of Turkology at the University of Bamberg. 08/2009: Ph.D., Oriental Studies, Title of thesis: Selbst-und Fremdwahrnehmung im Prozess kultureller Transformation. Anatolische Quellen über Muslime, Christen und Türken (13.-15. Jhdt.) 04/2005–10/2011: Research Fellow at the medievalist Priority Program “Integration and Desintegration of Civilizations in the European Middle Ages” (SPP 1173). 04/2004–03/2005: Lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Bonn. 04/2003–03/2005: Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation. 02/2002: M.A. in Political Sciences at the University of Bonn. 1993–2002: University of Bonn, studies of Political Sciences, Oriental Studies, Comparative Religious Studies.
