- TU Berlin (Germany) & Glasgow (UK)
- Glasgow, UK (Ph.D. with John Murphy)
- UCLA, USA (Postdoc with Ken Houk)
- 2010 – Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich
- 2013 – Professor, RWTH Aachen
- 2016 – Full Professor & Chair, RWTH Aachen
- Research Interests: physical organic chemistry, reactivity concepts, computational chemistry, catalytic methods for organic synthesis.