| Since 2015 | Coordination of the Bamberg Graduate School for Oriental Studies |
| Since 2012 | Member of the Bamberg Graduate School for Oriental Studies (BaGOS) |
| Since 2011 | Research Assistant at the Chair of Islamic Studies of the University of Bamberg |
| 2010 | Research stay in India |
| Since 2009 | PhD project in Islamic Studies titled: Between apologetics and reform - Discourses on marriage in South Asian Islam |
| 2000-2009 | MA in Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies and Economics at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Topic of the MA thesis: Ahmad Kasravi's views regarding the Baha'i Religion in relation to his religious views |
| 2000 | Abitur at the Elisabeth-Gymnasium Halle/Saale |