- W1-Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Chair for Global History of Christianity and Eastern Christian Studies
- Methodological approaches in studying global history of Christianity
- Transconfessional and trans-religious entanglements
- Mission in context of Eastern Christianities
Entangled history
- German Socie-ty for Mission Studies (DGMW)
- Yale-Edinburgh-conference
- International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS)
- Wissen-schaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie (WGTh)