Full professor Molecular Interaction Ecology at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, and the research group head Molecular Interaction Ecology (MIE) at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany (2014 - now)
Personal chair in Molecular Interaction Ecology, IWWR, Nijmegen (0.2 fte) (2014 - 2019)
Full professor in Ecogenomics, Institute of Water and Wetland Research (IWWR), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2010 - 2014)
Senior research scientist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Heteren, The Netherlands (2005 – 2009)
Research scientist at NIOO-KNAW, The Netherlands (2003 – 2005)
Post-doctoral research associate at NIOO-KNAW, The Netherlands (2000 – 2003)
Post-doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute of Chemical Ecology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Jena, Germany (1997 – 2000)
Post-doctoral research associate at the University of California Riverside, Department of Entomology, Riverside (CA), USA (1995 – 1997)
Post-doctoral research associate (0.3 fte), University of Leiden, Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences (1994 – 1995)
Ph.D. research associate, University of Leiden, Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences. Graduation 18 January 1995, with distinction (‘cum laude’, top 5% of Dutch PhD graduates) (1990 – 1994)