| Juli / Aug. 2015 | Guest Professor Tel Aviv Universität, Moleculare Biology and Ecology of plants, Tel Aviv (ISR) |
| Juli 2011 - Juni 2023 | Spokesperson of the SFB924 "Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation Yield and Yield Stability in Plants." |
| seit Sept. 2008 | Chair of Department of Plant Systems Biology, Technische Universität München (D) |
| 2011 - 2008 | Research group leader, Center of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Tübingen (D) |
| 1998 - 2001 | Postdoctoral researcher, MCDB Department (Prof. Dr. Xingwang Deng), Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA) |
| 1994 - 1998 | PhD student, John Innes Centre (Prof. Dr. Mike Bevan), Norwich (UK) |
| 1991 - 1994 | Undergraduate studies Biotechnology, École Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (F) |
| 1989 - 1991 | Undergraduate studies Biology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (D) |