09/1998 - 10/1999: Office for Urban Planning, Frankfurt am Main, Research Assistant
11/1999 - 01/2001: University of Dortmund, Department of Economics and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Research Assistant
01/2001 - 04/2002: Member of the expert committee of the IBA Urban Redevelopment East, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; research assistant
02/2002 - 03/2006: Scientific conception and teaching in the postgraduate college “Transitional Cities in East Europe“ and “UN Urbanism“ of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; research assistant
04/2003 - 03/2006: Research Department 3, “Knowledge Milieus and Settlement Structures“, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner (Berlin); Research Associate
10/2006 - 12/2010: ACRE research project at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig; post-doc and research associate
10/2006 - 12/2012: Research and teaching at the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Research HU Berlin, Researcher
10/2009 - 21/2011: Research project “Anstiftung & Ertomis“ - “The urban performance of civic liveliness“; scientific project manager
01/2011: Research and consulting assignments for EU Commission DG Regio, DG Culture and others as well as state ministries Hamburg/NRW/Berlin/Brandenburg and BMZ/GIZ
06/2011 - 07/2012: Substitute Professor, Department of Geography, Humboldt University of Berlin
05/2013 - 06/2014: Project Manager “KMU-kreativ - Innovationsanalyse“ at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Scientific Project Manager at BMWI Berlin