| 2010-present: | Professor, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University |
| 2010-present: | Professor by courtesy, Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University |
| 2006-2010: | Associate professor, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University |
| 2008-2010: | Associate professor by courtesy, Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University |
| 2001-2006: | Assistant professor, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University |
| 1997-2001: | PostDoc, Physics Department, UCSD; partially supported by a postdoctoral fellowship of the DAAD. |
| 1996-1997: | PostDoc, Institute of theoretical Physics, University of Cologne |
| 1996: | PhD in theoretical Physics, University of Potsdam. |
| 1994-1996: | Research assistant, Max-Planck-Institute for colloid and interface science, Teltow (near Berlin) |
| 1993-1994: | Research assistant, Institute of solid state physics research, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| 1993: | Diploma in Physics, University of Cologne. |