| Since March 2005 | Research Group Leader (W2) at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg-Institut), Munich |
| September 2001 – March 2005 | Junior Reseach Group leader within the "Emmy Noether" programme of DFG at Humboldt University, Berlin |
| September 1999 – August 2001 | Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| December 1996 – August 1999 | Postdoctoral Fellow at Leipzig University |
| October 1993 – November 1996 |
PhD student at University of Cambridge, England; Supervisor: Professor Hugh Osborn.
You may download my thesis here. |
| October 1992 – September 1993 | Part III student at University of Cambridge |
| October 1987 – September 1992 | Student at Hamburg University |
| September 1975 – July 1987 | Pupil at European School Brussels II, Belgium |
In July 2014 I was named Professor at Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich.
In June 2014 I gave an overwiew talk on gauge/gravity duality at the international conference `Strings 2014' in Princeton, NJ.
In 2008 I was awarded the "Prof. Bernhard Hess prize" of Regensburg University.
From 2007 - 2012, I was an editor of Europan Physical Journal C.