2004–2005: internships and voluntary social year in various psychiatric and psychotherapy institutions
2005–2010: program toward the degree of Magister in Education (major), Special Education for Students with Behavioral Disorders (minor), European Social and Cultural Anthropology (minor) at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
2007–2010: student assistant at the Chair for Empirical Research in Education, Institute of Pedagogy, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
2010: degree of Magistra Artium in the subjects of Education, Special Education, and Social and Cultural Anthropology; Magister thesis topic: Problems in Integration of Immigrant Children at Full-Day Schools from the Viewpoint of Principals and Teachers
2010–2011: research associate at the Department of Education/Empirical Research in Schools, Institute for Educational Science at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen