Professional Experience Since 2019: Professor in Public Health with specialisation in Health Education at the Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Charité–Universitätsmedizinn Berlin, Germany 2018–2019: Interim Professor and Head of the unit Public Health Medicine at the School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld Since 2002: Associate Professor, Unit for Health Promotion Research, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark 1996–2002: Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Department of Public Health Medicine 1993-1996: Research fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld Qualifications 2004: Certificate in Epidemiology from Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Epidemiologie 2002: Second thesis (Habilitation) in Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Germany 1993: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Faculty of Biology, Department of Human Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany 1989: Diploma in Biology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany