| 2012-present | Group leader in Animal Population Ecology of Heike Feldhaar, University of Bayreuth, Germany | 
| 2009-2011 | Post-doctoral research associate, “Reproductive immunity, spermicide and cryptic female choice “  with Klaus Reinhardt and Mike Siva-Jothy, University of Sheffield, UK (funded by the  SNF) | 
| 2008-2009 | Post-doctoral research associate, “Sperm killing in female bed bugs: a definite test of the cryptic  female choice hypothesis” with Klaus Reinhardt and Mike Siva-Jothy, University of Sheffield, UK  (funded by the SNF) | 
| 2007-2008 | Post-doctoral assistant with Paul Schmid-Hempel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland | 
| 2003-2007 | PhD, “Host-parasite interactions – experimental studies on virulence and transmission” with Paul  Schmid-Hempel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland | 
| 2002-2003 | Research assistant, for various projects with Barbara Tschirren and Michael Taborsky at the University  of Bern, Switzerland | 
| 2001-2002 | MSc (Zoology), “Enhanced predation is a cost of immunity in field crickets Gryllus campestris“; with  Martin W. G. Brinkhof and Heinz Richner at the University of Bern, Switzerland |