| since 2012 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| since 2011 | Research Associate, Lasky Center for Transatlantic Studies, Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| 2008-2011 | Research Fellow, Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich |
| 2009-2010 | Visiting Fellow, Department of History, Princeton University, and German Historical Institute, Washington DC |
| 2008 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2007 | Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; on editorial staff of 100(0) Key Documents in German Twentieth-Century History; Researcher for the German government's Independent Commission of Historians Investigating the History of the Foreign Service in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic |
| 2006 | Dr. phil., Modern History, University of Tübingen |
| 2003-2006 | Doctoral Researcher, Department of History, University of Tübingen |
| 2002 | MA, Modern History, University of Tübingen; studied Modern History and Romance Languages and Literature in Tübingen and Florence |