| 2019 – present | Professor of Sociology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) |
| 2021 – 2022 | Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences »Multiple Secularities« at Leipzig University |
| 2018 – 2019 | Visiting researcher at the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences of UT Dallas, USA |
| 2017 – 2019 | Heisenberg Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Culture at Leipzig University |
| 2016 – 2017 | Coordinator of an application for a collaborative research center (CRC / SFB) at TU Berlin |
| 2013 – 2015 | Guest professor for urban sociology and the sociology of space at TU Darmstadt |
| 2013 | Habilitation at the Faculty of History and Social Sciences, TU Darmstadt |
| 2012 | Visiting scholar and guest of Professor Peter L. Berger at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University, USA |
| 2007 | Ph.D. at the Faculty of History and Social Sciences, TU Darmstadt |
| 2002 – 2013 | Research fellow and lecturer at the Department of Sociology, TU Darmstadt |
| 2000 – 2001 | Bauhaus Kolleg, postgraduate course in urban studies, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation |
| 2000 | One semester abroad for studies in philosophy, St. Louis University, USA |
| 1999 | Diploma in sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/M. |
| 1993 – 1999 | Studies in sociology, philosophy and economics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/M. |