since 2010: Head of unit - Marine Spatial Management at the Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg
2007 – 2009: Marine Scientist at the Centre of Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft, UK
2005 – 2007: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Marine Science (ICM), Barcelona, Spain funded by a postdoctoral grant of the DFG
2005: Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the marine Environment, Oldenburg, (Germany) in cooperation with the Federal Institute of Sea fisheries, Hamburg (Germany) funded by a doctoral grant of the DBU