1975-1982

Studies in Cologne and Seville - History and Hispanic Studies

1982

First state examination for teaching history and Spanish

1986

Doctorate at the University of Cologne

1986-1992

Research assistant in the Department of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne

1992

Habilitation

1992

Appointment as university professor at Bielefeld University

1996 - 2016

Member of the Board and Vice Chairwoman of the interdisciplinary "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Lateinamerikaforschung" - ADLAF (Chair from 2004 to 2006)

WS 2000 - WS 2022/23

University Professor at the University of Cologne and Head of the Iberian and Latin American Department of the Institute of History

2003 - 2022

President of the Centro Latinaméricano de Colonia (CLAC) and ASPLA

Since 2010

President and network coordinator of the Network Latinamerica

2014 - 2021

Speaker for the Global South Study Center Cologne

Since 2017

Co-Speaker for the Maria Sibylla merian centre: Conviviality-inequality in Latin America

2021 - 2023

Member of the Board of Directors for the Global South Study Center Cologne

Since SS 2023

Seniorprofessor at the Institute for Iberian and Latin-American History