1981: Abitur at the Gymnasium Philippinum in Marburg
1982–1988: Studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen
1989–1994: Undergraduate training in psychiatry in Frankfurt and at Jena University Hospital
1994: Marbach scholarship holder at the German Literature Archive, writing a doctoral thesis on Karl Jaspers
1995–1998: DFG scholarship holder at the Tübingen Research Training Group ‘Ethics in the Sciences’
1998–2008: Research fellow and assistant at the Tübingen Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine
2002: Doctoral Prize (University of Tübingen) and First Prize from the Stehr-Boldt Fund (University of Zurich) for “Lifestyle in the Modern Age: Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis”
2008: Habilitation thesis in medical ethics entitled “The Ambivalence of Freedom: Suicidal Thought in the 20th Century”
2009/10: Feodor Lynen scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the Philosophy of Culture at the Graduate Centre, City University, New York
2010: Heisenberg scholarship holder of the DFG
2011: Adjunct Professor of European Intellectual History at Columbia University, New York
2011: Fellow at the Friedrich Nietzsche Research Centre of the Weimar Classicism Foundation
2012: Heisenberg professorship in Comparative History of Ideas at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Oldenburg
2012: Founded the Karl Jaspers Society e.V.
2013: Director of the Karl Jaspers House at the University of Oldenburg (lecture, conference and fellowship programmes, as well as the annual journal)
