1996-2001 Studies in History, German Literature and Language, and Protestant Theology in Tübingen
2002 First State Teaching Exam
2002-2005 Fellow of the Tübingen Research Group “Ars und Scientia im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit” (Arts and Sciences in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era)
2005-2007 State-certified teacher training for secondary schools (Referendariat) in Stuttgart
2006 PhD awarded by the University of Tübingen for the dissertation: “Luthertum, humanistische Bildung und württembergischer Territorialstaat. Die Gelehrtenfamilie Bidembach vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert” (Lutheranism, Humanist Education and a Württemberg Territorial State: The Bidembach Family of Scholars from the 16th to 18th Centuries”
2007 Second State Teaching Exam
2007 Dr. Leopold-Lucas Prize for Junior Scholars
2008 Research prize awarded by the Gesamtverein der deutschen Geschichts- u. Altertumsvereine
Director of Studies at the Gymnasium in der Glemsaue (high school) in Ditzingen
Adjunct Lecturer in the didactics of history at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart
Head of history at the Staatlichen Seminar für Didaktik und Lehrerbildung (State Institute for Didactics and Teacher Education – upper secondary school division) in Esslingen
