Curriculum vitae and scientific career
Curriculum vitae and scientific career
- since 2025 Professor of Protestant Theology with a focus on the New Testament at the University of Oldenburg
- 2023/2024 Substitute for the professorship of New Testament I with a focus on Ancient Judaism, School of Protestant Theology at LMU Munich
- 2022-2024 Research fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation with a project on the reception of Jerusalem in early Christian literature of the first and second centuries. Link
- 2020 Representation of the chair for New Testament at the Augustana University Neuendettelsau
- 2019-2020 Substitute professorship for New Testament II with a focus on New Testament and Greco-Roman Culture at the Protestant Theological School of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- 2018/2019 Visiting professor (interim professorship) for New Testament specialising in the religious, literary and contemporary history of early Christianity at the Theological School of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2018 Substitute professorship for New Testament II with a focus on the New Testament and Greco-Roman culture at the Protestant Theological School of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- 2017-2018 Substitution of a position as "Lektor" (Teaching staff for special tasks) for the subject New Testament, Institute for Protestant Theology, University of Cologne.
- 2017 Substitute professorship for New Testament I with a focus on Ancient Judaism at the Protestant Theological School of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- 2015 Habilitation at the Protestant Theological School of the LMU Munich with a thesis on "Jesus the Saviour. Studies on Christology and Soteriology in the Lucan double work". (Establishment of teaching qualification and award of the academic degree Dr habil. 12/2015, authorisation to teach 04/2026)
- 2011-2017 Temporary Academic Councillor in the subject New Testament at the Protestant Theological School of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- 2009-2011 Research assistant in the subject New Testament at the Protestant Theological School of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- 2009 Doctorate (Dr. theol.) at the School of Theology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a dissertation on "God all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28). Studies on the theocentricity of Paul's argumentation
- 2004-2009 Pastor of the Evangelical Free Church (Baptist) in Hamburg-Rahlstedt (I have been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church since 2013)
- 2002-2003 In-depth practical theological training ("candidate year") at the Elstal Theological Seminary (University of Applied Sciences).
- 2000-2002 Studied Protestant theology (diploma programme) at the Theological School of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Graduated with a Diplom degree in theology.
- 1996-2000 Studied Protestant Theology (diploma programme) at the Theological School of the University of Leipzig
- 1995-1996 Studied physics (diploma programme) at the University of Leipzig
Co-publishing, collaboration and editorial activities
- 2019-2024 Permanent reviewer for Bibel und Kirche/Biblische Bücherschau, https://www.bibelwerk.de/verein/buecherschau/
- 2015-2018 Co-editor of the Wissenschaftliches Bibellexikon (WiBiLex), New Testament, editor: Prof Dr Stefan Alkier, www.wibilex.de
2009-2015 Editorial assistant at the Theologische Rundschau (Register)
Memberships in professional organisations and international connections
- Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS)
- Scientific Society for Theology (WGTh)
- Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
- International Colloquium for the Study of the New Testament (ICSNT; South Africa)
- Research Fellow of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (link)
- In collaboration with Prof. Dr Michal Beth Dinkler (Yale Divinity School) and Prof. Dr Simon Butticaz (Université de Lausanne): Leading the multi-year seminar at the Society of New Testament Studies (SNTS): Interpreting the Book of Acts in the 21st Century: Problems and Methods
Participation in church and ecumenical committees
- 2014-2017 Deputy Delegate of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Bavaria in the Association of Christian Churches in Bavaria.
- 2004-2009 Deputy Ecumenical Representative of the Association of Evangelical Free Churches Hamburg K.d.ö.R.
- 2004-2009 Member of the ecumenical working group Hamburg-Rahlstedt.
- 2004-2009 Representative of the Association of Evangelical Free Churches in Hamburg, K. d. ö. R., in the Theological Commission of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Hamburg.
- 2004-2007 Lecturer and member of the planning commission of the "Evangelisch-Freikirchliche Seminare" (church adult education) of the Association of Evangelical Free Churches in Hamburg, K. d. ö. R.