Research Executive and Administrator, memorial site of the former Concentration Camp Flossenbürg; established the Research and Documentation Centre under the supervision of the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture (in co-operation with Jörg Skriebeleit), 1998-1999.
Lecturer in Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1999-2006.
Co-organizer of the interdisciplinary and intercivilizational Eranos-conferences in Ascona/Switzerland, 2001+.
Co-editor of the proceedings of the Eranos-Conferences, 2003+.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, Fall 2003.
Director of the Summer School "Religion and Politics: The Presence of Sacred and Secular Traditions in Europe and the Middle East." CEU, Budapest 2008.
