2010 (mid October) – present: Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

2008 (October) – September 2009: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Botany, University of Cape Town, South Africa in collaboration with Dr. M. Muasya.

2004 (July) – September 2008: Doktorant and Halbassistent at the Institut für Botanik, Universität Zurich, Switzerland. Thesis: „Biogeography and speciation patterns in the occupation of the Afrotemperate Regions by Northern Hemisphere plant Elements“. Promoter: Prof. H.P. Linder.

2000: Four month internship at the United Nation Environmental Program in Nairobi, Kenya.

1998 (October) - May 2004: Study of biology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. Diploma thesis: „The palms of La Réunion phylogenetic reconstruction and ITS polymorphism at the example of Acanthophoenix rubra“. Supervised by: Prof. Oberwinkler, Dr. Begerow.