Until 06/2019 Principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Centre 1136, Göttingen University, sub-project: B 04 Scriptural Exegesis and Religious Polemics in Syriac Texts in Late Antiquity
Since 2011 research fellow at the Courant Research Center EDRIS, representative of the area "Education and Religion in Oriental Christianity"
Since 2008 lecturer for Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient, Tübingen
2002-2004 lecturer for Ancient Greek, Latin and History of Early Christianity in the Department of Biblical Philology at St. Petersburg University, Russia
2002 lecturer for History of the Eastern Church and Syrian at the Russian Christian Humanitarian Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Studies in Orthodox Theology and Patristics (St. Petersburg) and Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient and Church History (Tübingen University)
Academic degrees
2008 habilitation at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of Tübingen University, habilitation thesis: „Visio mystica im Spannungsfeld der frühchristlichen Überlieferungen. Die Lehre der sogenannten Antoniusbriefe von der Gottes- und Engelschau und das Problem unterschiedlicher spiritueller Traditionen im frühen ägyptischen Mönchtum“