2008 - 2019

Senior researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Department of Environmental and Planning Law

2007 - 2008

Researcher at the Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau-Roßlau

2005 - 2007

Adviser of Organizations of Civil Society in Nampula, Mozambique, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED)

2005

PhD on impacts of the Habitats Directive on mining projects under the German Mining Act; Decorated with Dr. Feldbausch-Price for the dissertation

2003 - 2004

Doctoral Fellow, University of Leipzig, and scholarship holder of Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), Osnabrück

2000 - 2002

Lawyer in Leipzig and Greiz

1998 - 2000

Trainee Lawyer at the Regional Court in Zwickau, at the German Academy of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht

1993 - 1998

Academic Studies of Law at the University of Leipzig