- since 2015: Professor for Offshore Systems Engineering at the Institute for Naval Architecture and Maritime Engineering at the UAS Kiel
- since 2015: publicly appointed expert for support structures at on- and offshore wind turbines
- since 2009: consultant engineer, Lower Saxony Chamber of Engineers
- since 2009: managing partner of SKI Ingenieurges. mbH in Hanover
- 2009: PhD at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Leibniz University of Hanover, subject: “Load bearing characteristics and fatigue strength of sandwich towers for wind turbines”
- 2008: apprenticeship as International Welding Engineer at the SLV Hannover
- 2003 - 2008: academic employee at the Institute of Steelwork at the Leibniz University of Hanover
- 1997 - 2003: degree in Civil Engineering at the TU Braunschweig
- Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI)
- Bundesverband für WindEnergie e.V. (BWE)
