2016-now Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany. Part-time professor at the university in Erlangen.
2010-2016 Full professor (chair) at Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg at Erlangen, Germany
2005-2010 Junior research group leader (junior professor, Emmy-Noether program) at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Germany
2003-2005 Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, USA (group of Steve Girvin)
2002-2003 Postdoctoral fellow in the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research in Nanoscale Science (NCCR), Basel
1999-2002 PhD student at the University of Basel, Switzerland (group of Christoph Bruder)