Since 2017 Assoc. Prof., School of Education, STEM Didactics 2013-2017 Assoc. Prof., Institute of Inorganic Chemistry 2013 Venia docendi in Inorganic Chemistry 2009-2017 Deputy Head of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry since 2006 Group leader, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria 2004-2006 Post-doctoral position in the group of Prof. Dr. H. Yersin at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, University Regensburg, Germany 2003-2004 Chemist in the R&D department, Prisman GmbH, Germany 2001-2003 Ph.D. thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. H. Schmidbaur: “Synthesis, Structure and Coordination Chemistry of Selected Phosphororganic Compounds and their Nitrogen and Arsenic Analogues” (summa cum laude) 2000-2001 Diploma thesis at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. H. Schmidbaur): “Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of 5-Organyl-5-phospha-spiro[4.4]nonanes” 1997-2001 Study of Chemistry at the Technical University Munich 1997-2001 Fellow of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” 1994-1997 Study of Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen/Nürnberg