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- Since 2026 Professor of Music Education at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
- Since 2025 Visiting Professor (professor II) at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH), Oslo (Norway)
- Since 2018 Professor of Music Education at Nord University, Faculty of Education and Arts, Campus Levanger (Norway); head of the research group ‘Music-related Learning Processes’
- 2022–2025 Visiting Professor (professor II) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim (Norway)
- 2016–2018 Professor of Music Education at the University of Music Lübeck (Germany); Head of the ‘Centre for Teacher Education’ (ZfL)
- 2013–2016 Professor of Music Didactics/Artistic Practice in Music at the University of Erfurt (Germany); Head of department (music), 2014–2016 Vice Director of the Erfurt School of Education (ESE)
- 2010–2013 (Associate) Professor of Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart (Germany)
- 2010 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Bremen (Germany)
- 2008–2009 Coordinator of the BMBF research programme ‘An Instrument for Every Child’ (JeKi) at Bielefeld University (Germany)
- 2007–2009 Research fellow at the University of Bremen (Germany), DFG project KoMus
Selected roles
- 2024–2027 Member of the national reference group for Horizon Europe Cluster 2 (Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies), Research Council of Norway
- Since 2025 Member of the Swedish Research Council’s review panel for Subject Didactics (UV‑4)
- Since 2024 Coordinator of the Horizon Europe project dialoguing@rts
- Since 2026 Co-lead of Work Package 4 (Creative use of AI in education), MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity