Since December 2015: University professor of Health Sciences at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
. February 2014: Successful interim evaluation of the W1 professorship, confirming permanent appointment as professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bielefeld University.
2011–2015: Junior Professor (W1) of Social Epidemiology. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld.
2010–2011: Head of the Social Epidemiology Research Group, Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS).
February 2010: Doctor of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld. Recipient of the AOK Prize for the best doctoral thesis of 2010 at the Faculty of Health Sciences.
2009: Staff Member, Institute for Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Computer Science (IMBEI), University Medical Centre Mainz.
2003–2009: Staff Member, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bielefeld University.
2003–2005: Studied epidemiology (Master of Science in Epidemiology), Bielefeld University.
1999–2003: Studied health sciences (Diploma), Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.
1997: A-levels, Hansa-Gymnasium, Hamburg.

Reviewer for specialist journals

BMC Public Health
BMJ Open
Bundesgesundheitsblatt
Deutsches Ärzteblatt
Economics and Human Biology
European Journal of Epidemiology
European Journal of Public Health
Das Gesundheitswesen
International Journal for Equity in Health
International Journal of Public Health
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Journal of Public Health
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
PH Forum
PLoS ONE
Social Science & Medicine
The European Journal of General Practice
The Lancet
Tropical Medicine & International Health

Examiner for research funding organisations

German Research Foundation (DFG)
German Aerospace Centre (DLR),
Project Management Agency for Health Research
Swiss Cancer League (Krebsliga Schweiz), Switzerland
National Institute for Health Research, NHS, UK

Memberships in professional societies and research networks

German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi)
German Society for Computer Science, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS)
German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS)
Section on Migrant Health, European Public Health Association (EUPHA)

Other activities

Spokesperson for the joint working group on social epidemiology of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), the German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS), the German Sociological Association (DGS) and the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), since 2014.

Editorial board member of Public Health Forum, De Gruyter, since 2014.

Deputy representative of the Federal Republic of Germany, EU COST Action IS1103 “Adapting European health systems to diversity (ADAPT)”, since 2011.

Founder and spokesperson of the Young Researchers’ Group on Epidemiology of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), 2008–2012.