Since 2018: Head of Research Department, Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (Erlangen, Germany)
2016-2018: Division Head, Renewable Energies Division, Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern, Erlangen, Germany)
2011-2015: Managing Director, Energie Campus Nürnberg (Nuremberg, Germany)
2009-2011: Managing Director, Konarka Technologies GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany)
2004-2009: Director of R&D Operations/Group Leader, Konarka Technologies GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany)
1999-2004: Senior Scientist, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG (Erlangen, Germany)
1993-1999: Graduate student/PhD Program in Physics, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA)
1989-1992: Bachelor of Science in Physics, University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA)