After I got my PhD degree at the Max-Planck-Institute for
Radioastronomy
in Bonn, I stayed for a few Postdoc years as an Emmy-Noether Fellow at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge/USA (CfA)
in the Submillimeter Array Group (SMA).
From September 2005 to September 2009, I was the
Head of an Emmy-Noether Research Group at the MPIA dedicated
to study the earliest stages of massive star
formation employing the exciting techniques of (Sub)millimeter
Interferometry. Since then, I am staff member of the Planet and Star
Formation Department at the MPIA. In 2013, I got appointed Associate
Professor at the University of Heidelberg. In 2015, I received an ERC
consolidator grant.