Curriculum vitae
| 1966 | Born in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony |
| 1972–1985 | School in Oldenburg |
| 1985 | Abitur (Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg) |
| 1985–1990 | Studies: (Classical) Latin and History (teaching degree for secondary schools); Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Neo-Latin (Magister) |
| 1986–1993 | Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
| 1990 | Teaching degree (Erstes Staatsexamen) for secondary schools |
| 1990/1991 | Lectureship at the University of Göttingen |
| 1991–1993 | Employment at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony |
| 1993 | PhD Doctorate (Dr. phil.) |
| 1994–1996 | Research employee at the University of Freiburg; Member of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 321 “Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit” |
| 1996 | Habilitation, University of Freiburg. |
| 1996 | Received an offer for the C3 professorship of Middle- and Neo-Latin Philology, Kiel University (rank 1; accepted) |
| 1996–2002 | Professorship of Middle- and Neo-Latin Philology, Kiel University; Director of the Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde |
| 1998–2002 | Speaker of the DFG Research Training Group 515 “Imaginatio borealis” |
| 2001 | 1st rank in the application process for the chair in Medieval Latin Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich |
| 2001 | Received an offer for the chair of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Neo-Latin, University of Göttingen (rank 1; accepted) |
| since 2002 | Chair for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Neo-Latin, University of Göttingen |
| 2002–2007 | Board member of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lateinisches Mittelalter” (AGLMA) |
| 2004–2006 | Chairman of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lateinisches Mittelalter“ (AGLMA) |
| 2002–2017 | Board member of the project “Deutsche Inschriften des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit” (‘German Inscriptions of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period’) at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony; since 2013 vice chairman |
| 2002–2007 | Member and sponsor of the International Max Planck Research School “Werte und Wertewandel” |
| 2003–2013 | Member of the executive committee of the medieval study group at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel |
| 2003–2004 | Director of the Institute for Latin and Romanic Philology of the Middle Ages |
| 2004–2010 | Member and expert in the sub-committee “Kulturelle Überlieferung” of the German Research Foundation |
| since 2004 | Member of the board of the “Commission for Research into Late Medieval Culture” at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony |
| 2005–2010 | Director of the interdisciplinary “Zentrum für Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung” (‘Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research’; ZMF) |
| since 2005 | Director of the independent department of Medieval and Neo-Latin Philology |
| 2007–2017 | Member of the board of trustees of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel |
| 2009 | Received an offer for a W3 professorship for Medieval and Neo-Latin Philology at the University of Münster (rank 1; rejected) |
| 2009–2012 | Founding member and sponsor of the newly established DFG Research Training Group 1507 (“Expert Cultures”) |
| 2010–2012 | Deputy Director of the ‘Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research’ |
| 2010–2012 | Member of the international scientific advisory board of the EU project “Europeana Regia” |
| 2011–2024 | Member of the scientific committee of the “Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino” (SISMEL, Florence) |
| 2012–2014 | Director of the ‘Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research’ |
| 2014–2015 | “Opus magnum” Grant of the Volkswagen Foundation |
| 2014–2016 | Deputy Director of the ‘Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research’ |
| 2014-2023 | Member of the scientific advisory board of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel; since 2022 deputy chairman |
| 2014–2019 | Member of the inter-university doctoral program “Theorie und Methodologie der Textwissenschaften und ihre Geschichte (TMTG)” (Osnabrück / Göttingen) |
| 2016–2018 | Deputy Director of the ‘Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research’ |
| 2017 | Received an offer for the W3 professorship for Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Freiburg i.Br. (rank 1; rejected) |
| since 2018 | Director of the ‘Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research’ |
| since 2021 | Member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen |
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