| since 2019 | Researcher and scientific coordinator of the BMLE-funded project "Fichtel-LAB" (Ministry of Food and Agriculture) |
| 2015 – 2017 | Researcher in the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Climate funded project „SELFCITY – Collective Governance in the face of climate change“, University of Bayreuth |
| since 2010 | Interim Professor for Sociology/Urban Sociology, Region & Family, University of Bochum |
| since 2012 | Post-Doc, Executive for the Subdepartment Urban Sociology, Goettingen University |
| 2007 | Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen |
| 2002 - 2009 | Lecturer and Research Assistant at the Chair of Social Geography, University of Bayreuth |
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