Since 2015 Professor at Universität Hamburg
2009 - 2014 Junior Professor for Climate Data Assimilation, CliSAP Research Group leader at Universität Hamburg
2007 - 2008 Post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA)
2006 Dr. rer. nat., Universität Hamburg (Germany)
2003 - 2006 PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg (Germany)
2002 - 2003 PhD student at the Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)
2002 MSc in Oceanography, University of Southampton (UK)
1996 - 2002 Diplom course in physical oceanography, University of Kiel (Germany)