Since 2015: Clinical Senior Lecturer in Eating Disorders at King's College London, UK. 2009 - 2015: Professor for Neurobiology of Affective Disorders, University of Leipzig, Germany. 2007 - 2009: Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. 2006 - 2007: Specialist Registrar (AiW), Department of Neurology, University of Marburg, Germany. 2001 - 2006: Researcher and Specialist Registrar (AiW), Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany. 1999 - 2001: Core Psychiatry Training (AiP), Department of Psychiatry, University of Mainz, Germany 1993 -1999: Study of Human Medicine, University of Mainz, Germany; 1992 -1993: Military Service, German Armed Forces.