- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls (from 2006 to 2010)
- Vice-Rector for International Affairs, University of Heidelberg (from 2001 to 2006)
- Professor of Ancient History, University of Heidelberg (from 1998 to 2006)
- Professor of Classics, New York University (from 1994 to 1998)
- Assistant and then Associate Professor, University of Heidelberg (from 1986 to 1994)
- Postgraduate, University of Heidelberg (from 1982 to 1984)
- Undergraduate, University of Athens (from 1978 to 1982)
- Hellenistic history
- History of Greek religion
- Cultural history of the Hellenistic and Roman East
- History of Crete
- Greek epigraphy
- War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History (2005)
- Die Verträge zwischen kretischen Städten in der hellenistischen Zeit (1996)
- Historie und Historiker in den griechischen Inschriften (1988)
- For a full publicaton list, please see CV (above).
- Editor of Mnemosyne (from 2008)
- Editor of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (from 1998)
- Editor of the new inscriptions of Aphrodisias (from 1995)
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council for the project ‘The social and cultural construction of emotions’ (from 2008 to 2013).
- Grant of the Packard Humanities Institute for Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (from 2005 to 2009).
- Grant of the German Research Council for the project ‘The language of religious communication in the Roman East’ (from 2005 to 2007).
- Grant of the Ministry of Research of Baden-Württemberg for the project ‘Persuasion strategies’ (from 2004 to 2006).
- Grant of the German Research Council for Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (from 2003 to 2006).
- Grant of the German Research Council for the project ‘Ritual and Communication in the Greek communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods’ (from 2002 to 2009).
- State Research Award 2000 of Baden-Württemberg (2001).
- Teaching Award, New York University (1997).
- Nikos Svoronos History Award (1991).