Aug 2013 – Dec 2016          

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Senior Research Associate at SFB 644 “Transformations of Antiquity”, project B10 “Appropriations of Ancient Sculpture Beginning in the 16^th Century: Perception and Canonization”  (directed by: Prof. Dr. Luca Giuliani, Prof. Dr. Susanne Muth)

May 2011 – Apr 2013

Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf

Research grant

Nov 2010 – Apr 2011  

Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven

Research associate

Jul 2002 – Nov 2010             

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Lecturer, Institute of Art and Visual History (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp)

May – Jul 2009                     

Universität Passau

Lecturer, Department of Art History and Christian Archaeology

Jan – May 2005                     

The American University of Rome

Adjunct professor, Department of Arts and Humanities

Sep 2004 – Aug 2006        

Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte), Rome

Post-doc research fellow

Feb 2004                               

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Ph.D., thesis: “BACCIVS BANDINELLVS DIVI IACOBI EQVES. Zur Selbstdarstellung Baccio Bandinellis” (summa cum laude, advisor: Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp)

Apr – Sep 2001

FAZITStiftung Gemeinnützige Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Frankfurt/Main

Doctoral fellowship

Apr 2000 – Mar 2001 

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin      

Doctoral fellowship

Apr – May 1999                    

Princeton University

Visiting scholar

Jul – Aug 1996 

Instituto Camões, Lisbon

Fellowship for the 61^o Curso de Verão at Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras

Mar – Dec 1995    

Franz Xaver Müller (private collection), Würzburg

Exhibition, inventory and catalogue

Jul 1993 – Jun 1995

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn

Doctoral fellowship, Graduiertenkolleg “Die Renaissance in Italien und ihre europäische Rezeption: Kunst - Geschichte – Literatur”, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Director: Prof. Dr. Gunter Schweikhart)

Oct 1994 

Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte), Rome

Studienkurs: “Kunst und Kunstpolitik am Hofe Leo X.”, guided by Prof. Dr. Christoph L. Frommel

Oct 1993  

Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte), Rome

Studienkurs “Julius II. und die Kunst der Hochrenaissance”, guided by Prof. Dr. Christoph L. Frommel

May – Dec 1993 

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Volunteer at Martin von Wagner-Museum

Jun 1992   

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Magister Artium (M.A.), thesis: “Landschaftsdarstellung im Werk Masaccios” (advisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kummer)

May – Jul 1991 and 1992 

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Department of Art History, Lecturer for exchange-students of the State University of New York (“Introduction to Art History” in English; with excursions to Würzburg and Franconia)

Jun – Dec 1989

Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg

Department of Art History, Personal Assistant of Prof. Dr. Gosbert Schüßler