Born 1979 in Rinteln (Lower Saxony, Germany). 1999 to 2004 studies in Medieval and Modern History, Scandinavian languages and Northern Archaeology at the University of Kiel. 2002 to 2004 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.
8 December 2004 Master’s degree from the University of Kiel (Master thesis “The account book of the printmaster Peter Drach of Speyer (c. 1450-1504)”).
28 January 2008 PhD from the University of Kiel (Dissertation “Imperial coinage in the later Middle Ages”).
1995 Eligius Junior Prize of the German Numismatic Society. 2007 corresponding member of the Swedish Numismatic Society. 2011 Honorary Award of the Society for International Monetary History.
2001 research assistant with the Residenzen-Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen (Germany). 2002 to 2005 research assistant with the Professur für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (Professor Dr. Gerhard Fouquet) at the University of Kiel (Germany). 2005 deputizing Assistant Keeper at Den kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, National Museum, Copenhagen (Denmark). 2006 to 2008 Instructor (since 2008 Assistant Professor) with the Professur für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (Professor Dr. Gerhard Fouquet) at the University of Kiel (Germany). 2008 to 2017 Keeper of the Uppsala University Coin Cabinet (Sweden). In November 2012 guest lecturer at the Historical Institute of the University of Mannheim (Germany).
Since 2017 Head of Numismatics and Monetary History at Deutsche Bundesbank. Since 2019 lecturer at the Deutsche Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg.
PND number: 132268485, VIAF number: 45457876
ISNI: 0000 0001 2024 9717, ORCID: 0000-0001-6727-4645