My full name is Rebecca Anne Hedwig Waldecker. I was born in Aachen in 1979 and I grew up in Aachen and later in northern Germany.

• Since March 2015 Professor for Algebra at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
• Oktober 2009 - Februar 2015 Junior professor for groups and geometries at the University of Halle (Germany).
• May 2007 - September 2009 Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham,funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on a grant with Paul Flavell.
• January - April 2007 Honorary Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, School of Mathematics.

• Habilitation at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (2014).
• PhD at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (2007).
• 2003 - 2006 PhD student at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
• Diplom (undergraduate degree) in Mathematics, Statistics und Econometrics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (2003).