Since Jan. 2024: Full professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier, faculty “Bauen + Leben”, (Food Chemistry).
Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2023: Head of the European Research Center of the CJ CheilJedang Food Division, Wageningen, Netherlands.
March 2019 – Dec. 2020: Senior Product Development Engineer at Nestlé Health Science, Atrium Innovations, Berlin.
July 2016 – Feb. 2019: Head of the Global R&D Flavor Network, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne.
July 2016 – March 2018: Leader of the Flavors Group (ad interim).
July 2015: Senior Scientist Flavor Science; deputy leader of the Global R&D Flavor Network as well as deputy leader of the Flavors Group.
April 2012 – June 2015: R&D Specialist in the Flavors Group at the Nestlé Research Center, Nestec Ltd., Lausanne.
Jan. 2009 – March 2012: Head of the synthesis group of Symrise GmbH & Co. KG in Holzminden.
March 2005 – Dec. 2008: Lab manager at Symrise GmbH & Co. KG in Holzminden.
Jan. 2004 – Dec. 2004: Postdoctoral stay at UC Berkeley, USA, Laboratory of Prof. Dr. K. Peter C. Vollhardt (Dept. of Chemistry).
June 2003 – Jan. 2004: Scientific employee at the ITT in Stuttgart, (research cooperation with the BASF AG, Ludwigshafen).
March 2003 – May 2003: Freelance employee at BASF AG, Ludwigshafen.
Oct. 1999 – Jan. 2003: Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Stuttgart.
Oct. 1996 – Sept. 1999: Diploma thesis, studies of chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin.
Oct. 1994 – Aug. 1996: Vordiplom in Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden.