2009 PhD on Optimization of quantitative Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Münster, Germany
PhD Supervisors: Michael Deppe & Harald E. Möller

2002 MSc on Enhanced Zeeman splitting in quantum wires (Theoretical Physics)
Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany
Thesis Advisor: Bernhard Kramer

Since 2024
Professor of Advanced MRI, Department of Neuroradiology, University of Lübeck / University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein

Since 2015
Independent Emmy Noether Group: QMRI and In Vivo Histology, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany

Since 2017
Senior Research Associate, Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

2023 - 2024 Head of MR Physics Group (MPRG), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

2010 – 2014 Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (WTCN), University College London (UCL), UK

2004 – 2009 Postdoctoral and Doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Neurology, Medical Center Münster

2024            Appointment, W2 Professor for Quantitative Neuroimaging, Institute of Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Göttingen (declined)

2024 – 2029 Consolidator Grant, European Research Council (ERC; individual research grant), Lübeck University

2017 – 2024 Emmy Noether Grant, German Research Council (DFG; individual research grant, national analogue to ERC Starting Grant), Dept. of Systems Neuroscience, UKE, Hamburg

2015 – 2017 Marie Curie Fellow, Dept. of Systems Neuroscience, UKE, Hamburg

2017 – now Elected Member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE)

2014 – 2015 DFG Postdoctoral Fellow with reintegration funding, Dept. of Systems Neuroscience, UKE, Hamburg

2012 – 2014 DFG Postdoctoral Fellow, WTCN, UCL, UK

2013 Annual Early Career UCL Investigator Award in Neuroimaging Techniques. Prize awarded to top young investigators developing novel imaging technology across all faculties at UCL.