Since 2019 I'm a Board Member of the International Association of Social Work Management.

Between 2017 to 2022, I have been Vice-President for Teaching and Further Education (2 years) and for Research Innovation and Transfer (3 years).

From 2013 to 2017, I was Managing Director and Research Associate of a Research Organisation.

In 2009, I received a doctoral degree in Social Sciences.

From 2003 to 2010, I have been a research assistant at the Chair of Intercultural Communication at Chemnitz University of Technology and University of Bochum, Germany.

Post-doc at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (UK); Visiting fellow at the Goethe Institute in Cracow (PL), the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities in Essen, and the Global Young Faculty in Essen (Stiftung Mercator), Visiting Researcher at University College Cork