Since December 2014 Chair in Early Modern History & Gender History at the Ruhr-University Bochum (W3)
May 2012 to 2014 Visiting Associate Professor of German and History at the University of Toronto, Canada
May 2012 to 2014 Director of the DAAD Information Centre Canada (German Academic Exchange Service)
Winter 2011/12 Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Basel, Switzerland
Winter 2009/10 Käthe-Leichter-Guest Professor for Gender History at the Department of History, University of Vienna, Austria
June 2009 to April 2012 Founding Head of the Office for New Media at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg
January 2006 Habilitation at the Department of History, University of Hamburg
September 1998 to May 2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture
February 1998 Dissertation at the Department of History, University of Saarbrücken (Dr. phil.)
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Richard van Dülmen)
April 1993 Master of Arts at the University of Hamburg
Winter 1987/88 to Winter 1992/93 Study of History, Psychology (Vordiplom=B.A.) and Political Sciences at the Universities of Heidelberg, Vienna (Austria) and Hamburg
