2005
Senior Scientist, Research Group ‘Cognitive Ethology’, German Primate Center

2004
Senior Scientist, Section of Addiction Research, Department of Psychiatry,
University Hospital Tübingen

2001
Senior Scientist, Department of Neurobiology, German Primate Center

1996
Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH

1994
Scientific Assistant at the FU Berlin, Institute of Behavioral Biology.

1991
Ph. D. in Zoology, FU Berlin: Vocal communication in Barbary macaques

1988
Knowledge Engineering: Development and support of AI software, GNB
(Siemens & Nixdorf) and Expertise.

1986
Computer Science, TU Berlin.

1985
Diploma in Biology, FU Berlin: Acoustic communication in Nightingales