Since 2007 Director of Media Department in the library of the Ibero-American Institute, country specialist for Brazil, Chile and Portugal - 2001 Received Ph.D. from Humboldt-University Berlin - 1997-2000 Research Associate at the Center for Interdisciplinary Women's Studies at Humboldt-University Berlin - 1996 Fee-based Staff member in the Design Department of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences - 1995 Research fellow in the Berlin Senate's Department of Labor and Women's Affairs - 1988-1994 Majored in library science, Portuguese studies and psychology at Humboldt-University Berlin