Curriculum Vitae

Employment

2021-Chair of Dogmatic Theology and the History of Dogma, Theological Faculty, Trier, Germany
2013-2021Chair of Theology, Religion and Contemporary Culture in the Research Unit of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2011-2013

Catholic Consultant at the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland, employed by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican;

Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Theological Faculty of the Université Miséricorde, Fribourg, Switzerland (German section)

Assoziierte Professorin für Fundamentaltheologie an der Theologischen Fakultät der Université Miséricorde, Fribourg, Schweiz (deutsche Sektion)
2002-2011Assistant Professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research of the Catholic Faculty of the University of Tübingen, Germany
1997-2002Assistant at the Institute for Ecumenical Research of the Catholic Faculty of the University of Tübingen, Germany

Education

2008“Habilitation” on Ramon Llull and the attributes of God in interreligious dialogue in the Middle Ages, University of Tübingen
2002Doctoral dissertation on “Fecit utraque unum” – The language of unity in the Letter to the Ephesians and in ecumenism, University of Tübingen
1996“Staatsexamen” (= certificate for teaching at secondary level) in Latin Philology, Baden-Württemberg
1995“Staatsexamen”  in Greek Philology and Catholic Theology, Baden-Württemberg
1994Diploma in Catholic Theology, University of Tübingen

Grants & Scholarships

2005-2007Research grant of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (German Research Association)
1996-1997PhD scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” (German Scholarship Foundation)
1988-1994Scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”

Editorships

2024Editor-in-chief of Trierer Theologische Zeitschrift (ISSN 0041-2945)
2020-Member of the editorial board of the open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444)
2019-2021Editor-in-chief of Louvain Studies (ISSN: 0024-6964)
2019-2021Editor of the series Louvain Theological & Pastoral Monographs (Peeters)
2014-2021Member of the editorial board of Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses (ISSN: 0013-9513)
2014-2021Member of the editorial board of the series Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium (Peeters)
2013-2021Member of the editorial board of Louvain Studies
2013-2021Academic editor of The International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church (ISSN: 1747-0234)
2003Co-editor of the Lexikon der Theologischen Werke, Stuttgart (Kröner Verlag)

Memberships and Affiliations

2024-Board member of the Satoshi Oide Foundation for promoting the Cusanus Institute, Trier
2019-Belgische Associatie voor de Studie van Religies/Association belge pour l'étude des religions (BABEL): 2019 -2021 member of the board
2019-Member of the Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses (A.I.S.R.)
2018-2021Board member of the interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Religion and Worldview  (Kosmoi), KU Leuven
2017Member of the dialogue committee between the al-Azhar al-Sharif Centre for Dialogue, Cairo, Egypt, and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue on "The role of al-Azhar al-Sharif and of the Vatican in countering the phenomenon of fanaticism, extremism and violence in the name of religion"
2015-2021Board member of the Louvain Centre for Eastern and Oriental Christianity (LOCEOC), KU Leuven
2015-2021Board member of the Centre for the Study of the Second Vatican Council, KU Leuven
2015-Member of the Cardinal Willebrands Research Centre of the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
2013-2021Co-opted member of the Commission Nationale Catholique pour l‘Œcuménisme of the Belgian Bishops’ Conference
2011-2017Member of the International Reformed – Roman Catholic Dialogue Commission
2011Member of the Second Catholic-Muslim Forum, Jordan
2010-Member of the Joint Working Group between the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches

Service to Profession/University

2024-2025Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Trier
2023Evaluation of courses of studies on behalf of the Vlaamse universiteiten en hogescholen raad (VLUHR), Brussels
2021Chair of the Teaching Committee for the Dutch programmes at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the KU Leuven
2018Evaluation of courses of studies on behalf of the Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie (NVAO), Den Haag
2016-External member of PhD dissertations at the Institut Catholique, Paris (2016), the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands (2020), the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2021), the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (2021), the University of Helsinki, Finland (2022)
2014Evaluation of courses of studies on behalf of the National Agency for Science and Higher Education (Agencija za znanost i visoko obrazovanje), Croatia

National and International Awards

2019-Elected member of the Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses (A.I.S.R.)
2018"Canon of Honour" of the Anglican Diocese of Chichester, UK
2005Award of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, for the research project "Ramon Llull i el diàleg interreligiós"
2003Award of the "Dr. Kurt Hellmich"-Foundation of the Catholic Faculty of the University of Regensburg
2002PhD-Award of the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen for Catholic Theology