Honors

• Invited Sectional Speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), Sevilla 2024.

Editorialship

• Associate Editor Journal of Singularities.

Grants

• PI in the graduate school RTG 2553 Symmetries and classifying spaces: analytic, arithmetic and derived, funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  start: April 2020, renewal approved 2024, left the RTG due to my move to Nice
• PI in renewal application CRC 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity (2024, declined due to my move to Nice)
• PI in the ANR-DFG-project Quantization, Singularities, and holomorphic Dynamics, 2022-2024,
Coordinators: George Marinescu (Cologne), Viet-Anh Nguyen (Lille).
• Marie Curie Actions research fellowship (IEF) at the European Commission, 2012-2014, project page.
• I had been involved as PI in the grant application for the graduate school Research Training Group GRK 1821 at Freiburg University, funded by the DFG.
• Postdoctoral grants by DAAD (2004, 4 months, Oxford and Edinburgh) and DFG (2005-06, 12 months, Paris and Marseille).

Main Appointments

• since September 2024: professor at Université Côte d'Azur, Nice
  External member of ESAGA, University Duisburg-Essen
  External member of MM Münster, until 2025
  
• April 2022 - August 2024: professor (W2) at Münster
  Investigator (April 2022- August 2024), currently external member in Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster: Dynamics - Geometry - Structure
  Member in CRC 1442 Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity
• April 2015 - August 2024: lecturer (permanent position) at the University Duisburg-Essen, (on leave since April 2021).
  Member of the groups Geometric Analysis and ESAGA.
• 2012 - 2014: Marie-Curie fellow in the group "Topologie et Dynamique", University Paris 11 (Orsay).
• 2004 - 2012: teaching and research assistant in the group Geometry of the University Freiburg (Germany), on leave in 2005/06 and 2009/10.

Postdocs, research stays, deputy professorships

• April 2021-March 2022: guest at MPIM Bonn.
• 2014-2015 (winter term, 6 months): deputy professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) in the group Global Analysis at MI Bonn.
• 2010 (April-August): deputy professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) at Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2010 (February-March): research stay, in the group "Singularité" (IML Marseille).
• 2009 (October-December): research stay, invited by SFB "Raum, Zeit, Materie" (Humboldt University Berlin).
• 2005-2006 (12 months): post-doc in the group "Topologie et Dynamique" (University Paris Orsay 11) and in the group "Singularité" (IML Marseille), funded by DFG-grant.
• 2004: short post-doc positions in Marseille, Edinburgh and Oxford.

Degrees

• Habilitation and Venia Legendi, University Freiburg (Germany), December 2011
• Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig and the Max-Planck Institute Leipzig, supervisor Prof. Jürgen Jost, January 2004