Lebenslauf
- Since 2008: Course Director of the MBA programme "East Asian Management"
- Since 2008: Lecturer in Global Economics for the joint executive MBA programme "Master in Global Management” of University of Applied Sciences Bremen and the Academy of Foreign Trade in Moscow
- Since 2008: Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty 1
- Since 2006: Course Director of the B.A. programme "Applied Business Languages and International Management”
- Since 2005: Full Professor for "Japanese Economy and Society” at University of Applied Sciences Bremen
- 2002 - 2005: Regional Manager Japan, Korea, South Asia for the German Asia-Pacific Business Association (OAV), Hamburg, Germany
- 1998 - 2001: Ph.D. candidate & junior lecturer at the Chair of East Asian Economics/Economic Policy, Gerhard-Mercator-University, Duisburg
- Visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Public Administration of Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea (VII-VIII/2000)
- Visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (V-VII/2000)
- 1992 - 1998: Degree course in economics, major focus on the Japanese economy, at Gerhard-Mercator-University, Duisburg, Germany
- Exchange student at Cardiff Business School, University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom (IX/96-II/97)
- Exchange student at Dokkyo University, Saitama-ken, Japan (IX-XII/1995) 1991-1992 Community service in a kindergarden for subnormal children