Since March 2012	Professor of Economics and Political Science at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Kamp-Lintfort.
2007-2012	Researcher and since Dec 2010 Senior Economist for international economic developments and economic policies at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK), Düsseldorf.
2005-2006	Post-Doc and Habilitation scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation at the graduate school “The Future of the European Social Model” at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen.
2003	Co-founder of “European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP)“.
2002-2004	Researcher at the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Düsseldorf.
1999-2011	Temporary lecturer at sequentially the Universities of Marburg, Göttingen and Düsseldorf.
1999-2001	PhD scholarship holder of the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Dr. phil. at the Philipps-University of Marburg in 2002.
1998	Graduate assistant and PhD student at the Philipps-University of Marburg.
1991-1997	Studies of political science, economics and philosophy at the RWTH Aachen and the Philipps-University of Marburg; Dipl.-Politologe 1997, Philipps-University of Marburg.

I am a managing editor of “European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP)“, a member of the steering committee of the Research Network “Macroeconomics and Macroeconmic Policies” (FMM), a liaison professor of the Hans Boeckler Foundation and a member of the university’s senate and of the commissions for gender mainstreaming and for finances, planning and structure.