Since 2017, I teach social work management skill in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden.

From 2017 to 2019, I have been responsible for the re-accreditation and development of new Bachelor's degree programmes. From 2019-2022,  I support the strategic development, documentation, and implementation of research activities at the university.

From 2013 to 2017, I was the Managing Director and Research Associate of the Centre for Research, Continuing Education and Counselling at the University of Applied Science for Social Work in Dresden. 

From 2012 to 2013, I have been the Project manager of the ESF (European Social Fund) programme ‘Intercultural Competence’ at the University of Cooperative Education in Saxony, Germany. 

In 2011, I had to opportunity to be a visiting fellow at the Jagiellonian University and the Goethe Institute in Cracow (Poland) as part of the ‘Scholar in Residence’ programme that is regularly conducted by the Goethe Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities in Essen. In 2009 and 2010, I was also a Fellow of the ‘Global Young Faculty’, a program for young scholars by the Stiftung Mercator and the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities in Essen. Since 2012, I am a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, UK.

In 2009, I received my Ph.D. in social sciences at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum; the dissertation involved a systematic investigation to the religious self of German Protestant missionaries in cultural psychological perspective. 

From 2003 to 2010, I was a research assistant at the Chair of Intercultural Communication in the Faculty of Philosophy.