Since 2015: Academic Coordinator of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at Universität Hamburg
2014–2015: Research Associate in the DFG-project "Peshat in Context" at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Universität Hamburg
2014: Research Associate at the Institute for Judaic/Jewish Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
2011 and 2012–2014 Research Assistant at the Institute for Jewish Studies, the Institute for Arabic/Islamic Studies and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies–Middle East, Africa, Asia (ZIRS)
2010–2014: M.A. in Arabic/Islamic and Jewish Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Thesis: The Jangal Movement as reflected in the newspaper 'Jangal' and in contemporary press: The Jangal Movement as portrayed by itself and by others)
2011–2012: Visiting Student at Cairo University in Egypt
2007–2010: B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg