Enrollment at Hamburg, Cambridge (King's College) and Bielefeld Universities 1982-1987;

Visiting Fellow Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University 1987-88;

D.phil.University of Bielefeld 1989;

Bennigsen-Foerder-Prize 1992;

Meyer-Struckman Research Fellowship 1992-1993;

Habilitation University of Bielefeld 1994;

Heisenberg-Fellow, German Research Association, 1996-2001;

Cameron-Faculty Fellow, School of History, University of St. Andrews, 1997;

Fellow, The Humanities Research Program, University of New South Wales, 2001;

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Historical Studies, 2002;

Chaire Dupront, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), March 2009;

Fellow on invitation from the Director, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel, 2010;

Fellow, Royal Historical Society;

 

Member, Academia Europaea

Mitglied, Verein fuer Reformationsgeschichte;

Mitglied, Theologischer Arbeitskreis fuer reformationsgeschichtliche Forschung;

Mitglied des Vorstands, Johannes Althusius Gesellschaft.

NWO grant 'Conquest, Competition and Ideology: Inventing Governance in the Dutch Golden Age' (524.465,- EURO), 2005-2009.

NWO grant 'Reason of State or Reason of Princes? The New Monarchy and its opponents in France, Germany and the Netherlands, during the Seventeenth Century' (744.079,- EURO), 2011-2015.