1981: Abitur at the Gymnasium Philippinum in Marburg
1982-1988: Studied human medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen
1989-1994: Psychiatric assistant in Frankfurt and at the University Hospital Jena
1994: Marbach scholarship holder at the German Literature Archive with doctoral thesis on Karl Jaspers
1995-1998: DFG scholarship holder at the Tübingen Research Training Group "Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities"
1998-2008: Research associate and assistant at the Tübingen Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine
2002: Doctoral prize (University of Tübingen) and main prize of the Stehr-Boldt-Fonds (University of Zurich) for "Lebensführung in der Moderne. Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis"
2008: Habilitation in medical ethics with "Ambivalenz der Freiheit. Suicidal thinking in the 20th century"
2009/10: Feodor Lynen scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Cultural Philosophy at the Graduate Centre, City University, New York
2010: Heisenberg scholarship holder of the DFG
2011: Adjunct Professor for European Intellectual History at Columbia University, New York
2011: Fellow at the Friedrich Nietzsche Centre of the Weimar Classics Foundation
2012: Heisenberg Professorship for Comparative History of Ideas at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg
2012: Foundation of the Karl Jaspers Society e.V.
2013: Director of the Karl Jaspers House at the University of Oldenburg (lecture, conference and fellow programme and yearbook)
