Director of the ZfL, executive board member of the Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin, member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin, research team leader of the key project Style. Past and Present

Co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, Heisenberg position funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the project Georg Lukács: An Intellectual Biography, research team leader of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe

Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area World Literature, research team member in the key project Style. Past and Present

Co-coordinator of the program area Knowledge of Life, project The Time Lapse as a Narrative Technique in the 20th and 21st Century