- 1996-2002 Studies of Geography, Political Science, Geology and Botany at the Universities of Potsdam, Berlin (Humboldt), Rio de Janeiro and Tübingen

- 2002-2003 Studies of  Agricultural Sciences, Food Security and Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics at the University of Hohenheim, Germany

- 2004 Field research in Argentina

- 2005 Diploma: Geography of the developing countries at the University of Tübingen (Diploma thesis: Small-scale farming marketing and livelihood security using the example of the livestock breeders of the region Los Blancas in the Chaco Salteño, Argentina)

- 2006 Admission examination and acceptance as doctoral student at the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Constance

- 2006-2009 Scholarship holder of the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg

- 2009-2010 Scholar at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany

- 2011 Research assistant at the University of Constance, Chair Prof. Dr. Jürgen Osterhammel

- 2012 PhD in History. Dissertation: "Die Erforschung der Kolonien: Expeditionen und koloniale Wissenskultur deutscher Geographen, 1884-1919".

- 2013-2016 Parental leave, further education (GIS certificate course) and activities as a programmer in the free economy

- 2015-2018 Project collaborator for various universities and research institutions (see projects)

- since 2019 Research assistant at the Institute for History Didactics and Public History at the University of Tübingen