2020-2022 Visiting Scholar, research programme ‘History of the Max Planck Society’, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Since 2019 Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2010-2019 Professor of History of Life Sciences and Philosophical Anthropology, Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum
2013 Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
2009/2010 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Visiting Professor for Gender Studies, TU Braunschweig,
2009 Visiting Professor, Collins Living-Learning Center, and Visiting Scholar Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University Bloomington
2008-2009 Short-Term Visiting Scholar, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico; ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis), University of Exeter; and Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe
2006-2010 Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (“W2 programme for the advancement of outstanding female scientists in the Max Planck Society”)
2003-2006 Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
2001-2003 Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin
1996-2000 Doctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department III, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger)
1988-1996 Study of Biology and German Literature, Georg-August University Göttingen