Vice President Research und Professor for Cultural Theory and Cultural Praxis at the HafenCity University Hamburg.

Director of the City Science Lab, a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge/USA.

Scholarship Humboldt Foundation (Feodor-Lynen Program) Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge/USA. 

Guest Lecturer at the Lucerne School of Art and Design.

Member of the Supervisory Board Hamburg Innovation and Advisory Boards Lucerne School of Art and Design and Choreographic Center PACT Zollverein in Essen.