Professional experience

2014 
Guest Professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria (summer semester)
since 
01/2010
Senior Research Scientist, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Department of Environmental Politics
2005 - 2009
Research Scientist, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ, Department of Economy
2004/2005
Research Scientist, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University
2003
Guest Researcher, New Academy of Nature and Culture, Loyola University Chicago, Ill., USA
2000 - 2003
Research Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
1999/2000
Research Fellow, Global Environmental Assessment Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge/ Ma., USA, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
1996 - 1999
Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
1994 - 1996
Scientific Assistant, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
1989 - 1993
Scientific Assistant/ Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg

Academic Education

10/2000
Dr. rer. soc. (~ Ph.D.) Sociology, Bielefeld University
1996
Magistra Artium Political Science/Germanistik, University of Heidelberg