2012-onwards: Associate Professor in Behavioural Ecology, Department Biology II, Ludwig Maximilians University / Head of Max Planck Research Group (Evolutionary Ecology of Variation Group), MPIO Seewiesen
2009-2012: Research scientist at the Department of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, MPIO Seewiesen
2006-2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (fellowship within the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
2005-2006: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (ALW open competition grant (with C. Both) of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
2004: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (Honorary scholarship of the University of Groningen)
2003-2004: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wales, Bangor, UK (TALENT scholarship of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
