since 2017 Professor of general art history with a focus on modern and contemporary art and theories on aesthetics at the University of Cologne
2015-2017 Professor for Art History, Goethe University Frankfurt (Contemporary Art)
2015-2018 eikones Senior Research Fellow, University of Basel
since 2012 Curator of The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection. Winners of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen. Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
2011-2014 Lecturer, Academy of Art and Design Basel
2008-2015 Assistant Professorship, University of Basel (Modern Art)
2009-2014 Head of the research group ‚Image and Ornament’ and board member at the NCCR eikones, University of Basel (with Dr. Vera Beyer FU Berlin)
2005-2007 Postdoc at the NCCR Iconic Criticism / eikones, University of Basel
2005 Research Assistant, University of Siegen DFG, Research Center ‘Media Upheavals’
2005 Doctorate, University of Basel, Dissertation: ‘Zur Trägheit des Bildes. Bildlichkeit und Zeit zwischen Malerei und Video’
2001-2004 DFG Scholarship, Graduate School ‚Experience of Time and Aesthetical Perception’ at the Goethe University Frankfurt
1994-2000 Bachelor and Master Studies in Art History, Art Education and German Literature at the University of Siegen, University of Florida, Gainesville and University of Basel