Director (Vorderasiatisches Museum)
| Since 2019 | Director Vorderasiatischen Museums der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin |
| Since 2021 | Honorary Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2016 until 2019 | Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology (Edwin Culbert Hall Chair), at the University of Sydney, Australia |
| 2018 until 2019 | Excavation and Survey at Kantarodai, Sri Lanka Northern Province |
| 2014 until 2015 | Professor of Near Eastern Prehistory at University Lyon II – Frères Lumière, France |
| 2009 until 2015 | Kamiltepe excavations and survey in collaboration with Academy of Sciences Baku, Azerbaijan Republic |
| 2000 until 2014 | Head of Teheran Branch of the German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Dept. |
| 2008 | Habilitation and venia legendi in Near Eastern Archaeology, Tübingen University |
| 2008 | Visiting professor at Tübingen University |
| 1997 until 2000 | Lecturer at Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey |
| 1996 | PhD, Heidelberg University |
| 1992 until 1995 | Researcher, Project “Early Metal in Mesopotamia”, funded by Volkswagen Foundation, collaboration of Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and Heidelberg University, Dept. For Near Eastern Archaeology |
Here, the employees of the different branches of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin introduce themselves, providing some information about their professional backgrounds and their main areas of work.