2017 - current Permanent research group Leader: "Tools and Culture among Early Hominins", Department for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany 2013 - current Adjunct Scientist, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, USA 2012 - 2017 Research-focused Lecturer (Birmingham Fellow), University of Birmingham, UK School of Psychology. Also became Associate of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) during that time. 2009 - 2012 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Postdoctoral research fellow 2006 - 2012 Carried out studies with chimpanzees in Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Uganda (4 trips, totalling 8 months) – plus field project in western Uganda in 2006 2004 - 2009 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Ph.D.-student and zoo-labcoordinator at the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre Ph.D. in Biology - Göttingen University, Germany - 20.11.2009, titled: "Human culture versus great ape traditions: Mechanisms of observational learning in human children and great apes" Supervised by Prof. Michael Tomasello and Dr. Josep Call; examined by Prof. Julia Fischer and Prof. Michael Waldmann. 2003 - 2004 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Research Assistant 2002 - 2003 University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Diploma thesis on observational learning in all genera of great apes (studies performed at the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre in Leipzig, Germany)