Since October 2021 Chair of Accounting and Auditing, School of Business, Economics and Information Systems, University of Passau, Germany

Since January 2019 Visiting Professor (Professor II) at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Bergen, Norway

March 2015 – September 2021 Professor of Financial Accounting at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Faculty of Business and Management, University of Innsbruck, Austria

January 2015 Habilitation (venia legendi) for business economics, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne

January – April 2014 Academic visitor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK

April 2012 – Feb. 2015 Post-doctoral researcher in the position of “Akademischer Rat auf Zeit” at the Department of Financial Accounting and Auditing, University of Cologne, Germany

December 2011 Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) awarded by the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany

Oct. 2007 – March 2012 Research Assistant at the Department of Financial Accounting and Auditing, University of Cologne, Germany

May 2008 – October 2010 PhD fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation

Sept. 2003 – August 2007 Business Studies, University of Cologne (Degree: Dipl.-Kfm.)