2015-2018: Postdoc-scholarship (Gerda Henkel Foundation) / Research Fellow at imai foundation - inter media art institute, Düsseldorf

2013-2015: Postdoc-scholarship, University of Paderborn, Department of Media Studies

2010-2013: Research Assistant, Department of Media- and Cultural Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2009: Doctoral degree in German and Media Studies (doctoral thesis about photography in the writings of Walter Benjamin, published 2010)

2008-2010: Research Assistant, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt and Guest Lecturer for history, theory and aesthetics of photography, University of Bonn

2007/2008: PhD-scholarship (Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds)

2004-2007: PhD-scholarship (German Research Foundation / DFG) within the Research Training Group Zeiterfahrung und ästhetische Wahrnehmung, Goethe University Frankfurt

2003: State Examination in German, Art Education and Philosophy, University of Paderborn

1995-2003: Studies of German, Art Education and Philosophy, University of Münster / University of Paderborn