• 1992-1997 Studied philosophy and political science in Hanover
• 1998-2001 doctoral scholarship
• 2001 Doctorate in Philosophy
• 1998-2004 Lectureship at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hanover
• Winter term 2003/2004 Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Durham, UK
• March-Sept. 2004 Research assistant at the Hegel Archive, Ruhr University Bochum
• October 2004 Appointment as Junior Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg
• since 2011 Associate Professor

Memberships

• Constitutive member of the Nature working group, FEST Heidelberg
• Chair of the International Hegel Society, Berlin
• Member of the DFG network "Empiricising the Transcendental"
• DFG Research Group "Imaginaries of Power", University of Hamburg