Since 2012 Full professor for Modern History, Department of History, University of Basel

2009–2012 Assistant professor (tenure track) for Modern European History, University of Basel

2008 Fellow of the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

2006–2009 Several appointed professorships at the University of Basle and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

2004 Senior Lecturer (“Privatdozent”) at the University of Zurich

2002–2006 Research associate at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin (“Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung”, WZB); founding member of the research group “Science Policy Studies” at the WZB

2002 Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation, Germany

2001 Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine (USA); member of the research group "Historical and Interpretive Approaches to Standards, Quantification and Formal Representations" (directed by Prof. Susan Leigh Star).

1999 – 2003 Habilitation project on "Risk policies of the Welfare state: the case of the Swiss National Accident Insurance, 1870-1970”; research fellow at the Wellcome Center for the History of Medicine, London; Science Studies Programme at University of California, San Diego; Social Science Research Center, Berlin; Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris.

1994 – 1998 Dissertation in History, University of Zurich

1986 – 1993 Master (lic. phil. I) in History, Sociology and German Studies, University of Zurich