Managing Director of the Department of History (2019-2020)
Managing Director (2014-2017) and Member of the Board (2014-2021) of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Didactics of the Humanities (Interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrum für Didaktiken der Geisteswissenschaften [IFDG]) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Cologne. Link
(Deputy) Member of the Closer Faculty (2015-2021) and the Structural Commission (2017-2020) of the Faculty of Philosophy. Link
Member of the board of the Cologne Graduate School of Didactics. Link
Partner of the Social Lab run by the “Future Strategy for Teacher Education” (Zukunftsstrategie Lehrer*innenbildung [ZuS]) and financially supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [BMBF]). Link
Executive Committee of the Joint German-Polish Textbook Commission. Link
Liaison professor at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Member of the Board of the Conference for History Didactics (Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik [KGD]) (2015-2017). Link
Editorial Board of the series Geschichtsunterricht erforschen (since 2012 together with Monika Fenn, Peter Gautschi, Johannes Meyer-Hamme and Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting). Link
Editorial Board of the series Starter Geschichte (since 2013 together with Markus Bernhardt, Monika Fenn and Björn Onken). Link
Editorial Board of the series Geschichtsdidaktik diskursiv – Public History und Historisches Denken (since 2016 together with Jürgen Elvert, Christine Gundermann and Wolfgang Hasberg). Link
Editorial Board of the series Beiträge zur Geschichtskultur (since 2016 together with Stefan Berger, Angelika Epple, Thomas Sandkühler and Marcus Ventzke). Link
Scientific Advisory Board of the Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Gesellschaftswissenschaften (ZDG). Link
Scientific Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Empirical Teacher and Teaching Research (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für empirische LehrerInnen- und Unterrichtsforschung [IZeF]) at the University of Cologne. Link
State Jury of North Rhine-Westphalia of the Federal President’s History Competition of the Körber Foundation (2008-2012, again since 2014)
Head of the KGD working group Empirical History Education (2011-2015) (with Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting)
Reviewer for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [BMBF])
Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Reviewer for the Austrian Science Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF)
Reviewer for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economics (Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft [BMWFW])
Peer-reviewer for the Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik (ZfGD)
Peer-reviewer for DIDACTICA HISTORICA – Revue suisse pour l'enseignement de l'histoire / Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichtsunterricht / Rivista svizzera per l'insegnamento della storia
Conference for Historical Didactics, Association of Historical Didactics Teachers in Germany (KGD)
Association of German Historians (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands [VHD])
German Association of University Professors and Lecturers