Academic positions

• Since 2021 Associated Principal Investigator at the Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Essen, Germany
• Since 2021 Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Since 2019 Co-Director of the Center for Intracranial EEG Research, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
• Since 2014 Full Professor for Neuropsychology at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• 2011-2014 Emmy Noether group leader, Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany
• 2011-2014 Junior Research group leader (tenure track), German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
• 2004-2011 Clinician-Scientist (Postdoc and Clinical Intern), Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany

Further activities

• Editorial board memberships and reviewing functions: Since 2021 Wellcome Trust Panel Member; 2016 BRAIN Initiative (NIH); 2014-2016 Research Council of Norway; since 2014 associate editor for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2013 Special topic guest editor for Frontierts in Human Neuroscience; Reviewer for >50 journals (including Science, Nat Neurosci, Neuron, Nat Commun, PNAS, PLOS Biol, Curr Biol, Trends Cogn Sci etc.)
• Since 2017 Member, Board of trustees, Leibniz Research Centre for working environment and human factor
• Since 2016 Co-opted Member, Ethics committee of the German Psychological Society