Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISIResearch Fellow
1985-1990: Studies of Management of Science at Humboldt-University, Berlin and the University of St. Petersburg (Russia)
1992-1997: PhD student at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University (the Netherlands)
1990-1997: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe
1997-1999: Research School for Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)
1999-2004: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Department for Innovations in Biotechnology
2004-2007: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Competence Center Innovation Systems and Policy
2005-2006: Secondment to the European Commission, Directorate General for Research, Unit for Planning, Programming and Evaluation
2008 Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Deputy Head of the Competence Center Policy and Regions
Since August 2008 in the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ – Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung)