- 2015-2017 Project Conservator in California, USA. Expert consultant for a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Expert consultant for a project to preserve the Marconi Radio Stations at Point Reyes National Seashore, CA
- 2010-2015 PhD student in Restoration, Art Technology and Conservation Science at Technische Universität München, Germany. Topic: The Concept of a Technical Germ Cell by Konrad Zuse (thesis available at Springer Research)
- 2010-2013 German National Merit Foundation, Doctoral Scholarship
- 2010 Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, Scholarship
- 2009-2010 Bavarian State Conservation Office, Conservator
- 2004-2009 Technische Universität München, Germany, Studies in Restoration-Conservation, Art Technology and Conservation Science
- 2002-2004 Pre-study Internship, Restoration of Furniture and Interiors, Bad Wiessee, Germany
- 2000-2002 Apprenticeship in Carpentry, Leipzig, Germany