| Department of Philosophy, University of Durham Lecturer in Philosophy (since 2006) |
| since 2009 | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Research Associate |
| 2007-2009 | Graduate Center, City University of New York Research Fellow in Philosophy of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Columbia University Seminar Associate |
| 2003-2006 | Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford Junior Lecturer in Philosophy Linacre College, Oxford Junior Research Fellow |
| 2005-2007 | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London PhD in Oriental Studies Title: Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka Supervised by David Seyfort Ruegg and examined by Tom Tillemans and Theodore Proferes . | ||
| 2000-2003 | Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge PhD in Philosophy Title: An inquiry into the notion of an ontological category Supervised by Michael Potter and examined by Hugh Mellor and Peter Simons . | ||
| 1999-2000 | Trinity College, University of Cambridge MPhil in Philosophy Senior Scholar Fellow of the Cambridge European Society James Webb Prize for the History of Ideas | ||
| 1996-1999 | Trinity College, University of Cambridge BA Hons Philosophy (I) Senior Scholar Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, James Webb Prize for the History of Ideas 1987-1996
| Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff Gymnasium, | Düsseldorf, Germany |