- Since summer semester of 2019: Professor for Social Law at the UAS Kiel
- Summer semester 2017 to winter semester 2018/2019: Lectureship at the UAS Kiel
- 2008 until February of 2019: Magistrate court judge, most recently with a focus on family and guardianship law
- since 2012: Member in the judicial review office at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court
- 2010/2011: Spokesperson for material criminal law and juvenile criminal law at the Ministry of Justice, Equality and Integration of the state of Schleswig-Holstein
- 2006-2008: Scientific assistant/academic advisor at the Faculty of Law of the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
- Legal clerkship (Completed in spring 2006)
- Promotion to become Dr. iur. at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Completed in autumn of 2004)
- Study of Legal Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel and the University of Aberdeen (Degree in spring 2001)
