| 1992 - 1999 | Study of Biology at the University of Jena, Germany and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain |
| 1999 - 2004 | Doctoral student, Institute of Zoology, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, Thesis about the molecular characterization of the sex determining locus of the honey bee Apis mellifera |
| 2004 - 2005 | Post-Doc, Institute of Zoology Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
| 2005 - 2011 | Research Assistant, Institute of Genetics, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, Habilitation (venia legend “Genetics”) with Prof. Dr. M. Beye |
| 2012 - 2014 | DFG-Heisenberg Scholar, Group leader, Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany, with Prof. Dr. T. Wiehe |
| Since 2014 | Professor for Livestock Population Genomics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany |
