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.

Member of the current Scientific Council of Germany.

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

Evaluator for: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Swiss National Science Foundation, federal ministries of Germany, private foundations, etc.

Guest Lecturer at the Lucerne School of Art and Design.

Member of the Research Committee of The Interface Society and the Advisory Board of Hamburg Innovation.