Curriculum vitae
| 1980–1985: | Studies of Art History, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History in Berlin, Rome, Cologne and Bonn |
| 1986–1988: | 1986–1988: Doctoral fellowship at Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Max Planck institute of art history) |
| 1989: | Doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin, supervisor: Prof. Heinrich Thelen, title of doctoral thesis: Studien zur Malerei Massimo Stanziones mit einem kritischen Katalog seiner Werke (Studies on the paintings of Massimo Stanzione and critical catalogue of his works) |
| 1989–1991: | Postdoctoral fellowship at Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte) |
| 1992–1997: | Academic assistant at Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte) |
| 1997: | Habilitation at Freie Universität Berlin, title of thesis: Kardinal Maffeo Barberini, später Papst Urban VIII., als Auftraggeber und Mäzen. Beiträge zu einer Archäologie des römischen Hochbarock. (Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII, as commissioner and patron of art – contributions to an archaeology of Roman High Baroque) |
| 1997–2001: | Interim professor at the Universities of Leipzig, Dresden and Münster |
| 2001–2003: | Research professor at Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte), founder and head of the interdisciplinary research group Strategien frühneuzeitlicher Repräsentation (Strategies of representation in the early modern period) |
| 2003–2009: | Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada |
| Since 2009: | Chair in Baroque Art and Architecture at the University of Vienna |
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