Studied Higher Education with the subjects Biology and Theology at the University of Hamburg

1992-1994

Traineeship for the higher teaching profession in Hamburg

1993-1995

Teaching position for religion in the upper school of the comprehensive school and the integrated education programme in Steilshoop/Hamburg

1995-1999

Research assistant at the Institute for Science Education in Kiel (IPN) and doctoral student with Prof. Dr. H. Bayrhuber. Planning and implementation of a five-year research project as part of a BMBF project. Training and further education of pupils, students, teachers and heads of specialist seminars on current topics in bioethics.

Dec. 1999

Awarded the degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences, examinations in the subsidiary subjects of human biology, theology and didactics of biology. Subject of the dissertation: Investigation into the moral judgement of schoolchildren on the subject of genetic engineering-an intervention study.

Oct. 1999-Oct. 2004

Research assistant in the Department of Educational Science at the University of Hamburg

May 2004

Appointment (C3) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

June 2004

Call to the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Oct. 2004

Chair at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg; Didactics of Biology