1994 - 2000 Studies in History, English Language and Literature, and Philosophy at the University of Cologne and Trinity College Dublin
2000 First State Teaching Exam for secondary schools in English and History
2001 Project Assistant at Tender Consulting GmbH in Bonn
2002 - 2007 Doctoral studies at the University of Cologne with research scholarships at the GHI London and the Institute for European History in Mainz
2007 PhD for the dissertation: “Popular Conservatism in England: Plebejischer Konservatismus in Politik, Alltags- und Festkultur, ca. 1815 - 1867” (Popular Conservatism in England: Plebeian Conservatism in Politics, Everyday Life and Cultural Celebrations, 1815 - 1867)
2008 Dissertation prize awarded by the Arbeitskreis Deutsche England-Forschung (German Association for the Study of British History and Politics)
2008 - 2009 Research Assistant for the DFG Project “Historische Wertewandelsforschung” (Historical Approaches to Value Change Research) at the University of Mainz
Since April 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Institute of Modern History at the University of Tübingen
2011 Translation prize “Geisteswissenschaften International” awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels for the English translation of Krone, Kirche und Verfassung
2013/2014 Fellow of the Historisches Kolleg in Munich
Academic Offices and Membership in Professional Associations
Project Leader, CRC 923 “Threatened Order - Societies under Stress”, sub-project A 03: “Riots in British and German Regions of Heavy Industry in the 20th Century”
