• Roman, Greek, and Etruscan architecture of the ancient Mediterranean region
• Ancient urban studies
• Pre-Roman cultures of Italy and their exchange processes
• Ancient economic areas
• Architectural terracotta

•  Since 2020 Professor (W3) of Classical Archaeology with a focus on settlements and landscapes in the ancient Mediterranean region at Ruhr University Bochum
•  2018-2020 Acting Chair of Classical Archaeology with a focus on Mediterranean cultures at Ruhr University Bochum
• Summer semester 2016 and summer semester 2018 Visiting professor of Classical Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin
• 2015-2018 Senior academic advisor in the Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Bonn
• 2015 Habilitation (University of Bonn) Awarded the venia legendi for classical archaeology and appointed private lecturer at the University of Bonn; title of habilitation thesis: "Cult Buildings and Sanctuaries in Etruria. Architecture and Topographical Location
  of Etruscan Sanctuaries from their Beginnings to the Time of the Roman Conquest"
•     2014-2018 Member of the Executive Board of the German Archaeologists' Association (public relations)
•     2010-2014 Member of the Main Committee of the German Archaeologists' Association
•     2009-2015 Academic advisor at the Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Bonn
• 2009 Doctorate (University of Bern), dissertation entitled: “Campus Martius. The urban development of the Roman Field of Mars from the Republic to the Middle Imperial Period”
• 2007-2008 Research assistant in the Pantheon Project, Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Bern
• 2006 Master of Arts (University of Hamburg, title of master's thesis: "The Temple of Celle in Civita Castellana. Investigations into Etruscan architecture, terracotta decoration, and sacred objects using the example of a Faliscan sanctuary from the sixth to the first century BC."
• Studied classical archaeology, ancient history, and history of science in Hamburg and Berlin.
• Served as a temporary soldier in the Panzergrenadier Corps, Hamburg Fischbek.
• Born in 1976.

• Der Forumstempel und das Comitium von Paestum, Italien
• Funktionsbereiche einer antiken Hafenzone in Selinunt, Süditalien
• Die Oststadt von Velia - Velia Città Orientale in Velia, Italien
   

Westgriechische Häfen

•     Bildevidenz in der späten Republik (mit B. Sielhorst, D. Biedermann, P. Assenmaker, M. Flecker, C. Nowak-Lipps, T. Lappi, S. Schipporeit, G. Scriba)
•     Architektonische Terrakotten im AKM (mit M. Rimböck)
•     Torwächter der Vergangenheit. Vermittler und Vermittlungsprozesse von historischem Wissen im Film (mit J. Pause (TU Dresden)

• Das Handwerkerviertel von Selinunt: Die Insula S16/17-E (M. Bentz), Architektonische Entwicklungen und kultureller Austausch etruskischer und mittel-italischer Heiligtümer (abgeschl. Habilitationsprojekt)
•     Cerveteri. Die Nekropole von Monte Abatone (M. Bentz)
•     Das Pantheon in Rom (mit G. Graßhoff, M. Wäfler, Chr. Berndt (Universität Bern) und M. Heinzelmann (Universität zu Köln))
•     Mitarbeit an der DISCO-Studie 2014
•     Mitarbeit im  Pons-Projekt (von Prof. Dr. J. Bergemann (Universität Göttingen))