Education and Employment
| Since 11/2015 | Full Professor of History of Christianity and its interreligious relations | 2010 | Habilitation at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (Habilitation thesis: “Tertullian’s Apologeticum. Translation and Commentary”) |
| 2009-2015 | Junior Professor at the Courant Research Centre EDRIS, Göttingen, Germany |
| 2007-2009 | Lecturer at the University of Erlangen, Germany |
| 2005-2008 | Research Assistant at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
| 2004-2005 | Minister, university of applied sciences Nuremberg, Germany (“Hochschulpfarrer”) |
| 2005-2008 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Historische Theologie der Universität Halle |
| 2004 | Doctorate in Church History at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (Thesis: “Die theologische Ethik des Peter Abaelard”) |
| 1999-2002 | Congregational training, Nuremberg-Mögeldorf, Germany; Ordained as pastor |
| 1992-1999 | Studies of Protestant Theology at the Universities of Munich, Marburg and Erlangen; in context of study: one year traineeship, Giromagny, France |
Research priorities
Early Christian apologetics, Christian “schools” in the 2nd/3rd centuries, History of western monasticism, Theology and ethics of the 11th/12th century, Relations between Muslims, Jews and Christians in mediaeval times.