• 2003/7: Degree in Business Administration (BWL, Diplom) with honours. Degree dissertation funded by the Fraunhofer Technology Development Group (TEG)
• 2000: Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2 (second highest)
  1997 - 2003: Studies in Business Administration at Trier University
• 06/2005 - 09/2005: Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Summer Program research stipend at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University / Tokyo
• 08/2006 - 04/2007: Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers" at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University / Tokyo

• 09/2005 – 07/2006: Lecturer of  the course “Doing business in Asia / Japan”, at the Cologne Business School (CBS)
• 11/2003 - 12/2007: Research Associate at the Chair for East Asian Economic Studies, Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen
• 2000-2001: Student assistant and interpreter for French expert interviews at the project "Systems of monetory gain sharing" in Europe (systèmes de participation financière) at Trier University
• 2000: Internship at Roland Berger International Management Consultants (3 months, Wien, Dortmund, Düsseldorf)
• 1999: Internship at Bosch K.K. (3 months, Yokohama)
• 1997: Internship at Henkel Japan Ltd. (3 months, Osaka)
• 1996 - 1997: Obligatory Civil Service (11 months, Duesseldorf)

International comparisons of influences on the generation of technological innovation

• On the organizational level (management of new product development and overseas R&D subsidiaries)
• On the national level (change of National Innovation Systems, links to supporting institutions in the policy, labour, education, and social security systems)

Current research projects and papers can be accessed here:

www.japan-germany-research.de/research.html

• Methodological questions of Japanese related economic research
• Japan between market, state and society
• Reading economic texts in Japanese (study group)

• Studying foreign R&D coordination: emApirical approaches and evidence from Japanese multinationals. Sponsored presentation at “Symposium on Global R&D in East Asia”,  Rutgers Business School, 2007/4/30, (New Jersey, USA).
• Coordinating international R&D: evidence from Japanese and German multinationals. “International Workshop on R&D management in German and Japanese companies“, 2007/3/10, Institute of Innovation Research / Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
• Chances for economic development in Japan: short-term brightening or sustainable recovery? (German: “Chancen der konjunkturellen Entwicklung in Japan: Kurzzeitige Aufhellung oder nachhaltige Erholung?”) Within the presentation series ´“Boarding for Japan – business opportunities in Japan“, organized by JETRO and the Japanese consulate, 25.1.2006 Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Bochum, and 31.1.2006, IHK Ostwestfalen zu Bielefeld
• Global integration vs. local adaptation in multinationals: Evidence from R&D organization of pharmaceutical companies in Japan, Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA) Annual Conference 2005, December 8, Frankfurt a.d.O / Germany.
• External trade, signaling, and the German Pavillon – Expo 2005 from an economic perspective (German original title: Außenhandel, Signaling und der deutsche Pavillon – die Expo 2005 aus ökonomischer Sicht), Workshop ´Order and Organization of the Japanese Economy´, German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF), November 18, 2005 Königswinter / Germany.

• Academy of International Business (AIB)
• European International Business Academy (EIBA)
• German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)