| 2009 - | Founder and Co-director of the Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre (ACGC), established in 2009 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2005 - | Head of the Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2005 - | Chair of Astronomy Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2002 - 2004: | Head of the Department of Astronomy, University of Guanajuato, Mexico |
| 1999 - 2004: | Profesor Titular B, SNI II, Department of Astronomy, University of Guanajuato, Mexico |
| 1998 - 1999: | Profesor Titular A, SNI II, Department of Astronomy, University of Guanajuato, Mexico |
| 1997 - 1998: | Profesor Nivel G, Catedra Patrimonial de Excelencia II, Department of Astronomy, University of Guanajuato, Mexico |
| 1994 - 1997: | EC-postdoc, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, D.A.E.C., France |
| 1991 - 1994: | Fellowship of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW-fellow), Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 1988 - 1991: | Senior research fellow, Astronomical Institute, University of Basle, Switzerland |
| 1985 - 1988: | Post-doc research fellow, Astronomical Institute, University of Basle, Switzerland |
| 1978 - 1985: | Research and teaching assistant, Astronomical Institute, University of Basle, Switzerland |
| 1975 - 1978: | Part-time research assistant, Astronomical Institute, University of Basle, Switzerland |
| 1978 - 1985: | Graduate school at the Astronomical Institute, University of Basle, Switzerland, thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. G.A. Tammann (magna cum laude) |
| 1972 - 1978: | Studies of astronomy, physics and mathematics, University of Basle, Switzerland |
| 2006 - 2010 : | NRF rating (South Africa): B1 |
| 2002 - 2004 : | CONACyT rating (Mx) : SNI II |
| 1991 - 2001 : | CONACyT rating (Mx) : SNI II |
| 2009 - 2010 | NRF Incentive Funding (PI) |
| 2007 - 2011 | IRDP Grant (PI): The Final Unveiling of the Great Attractor Wall |
| 2007 - 2011 | NRF Grant UID 60880 (PI): Human Capacity Development for Multiwavelength Astronomy |
| 2006 - | NRF Research Niche Area (PI): Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology |
| 2006 - 2009 : | NRF Research Grant FA2005033000022 (PI) Cosmology with nearby dwarf and LSB galaxies |
| 2006 - 2008 : | NRF Research Grant FA2005031600007 (PI): Extragalactic Structures in the ZOA |
| 2006 - 2010 : | NRF Research Grant CFA2005031800002 (Co-PI): Galaxy Evolution at Intermediate Redshift |
| 2009 - | Member of the following 3 extragalactic MeerKAT survey proposals pursued at the UCT Astronomy Department: Deep HI Survey (PI Sarah Blyth, Benne Holwerda), MeerTHINGs (PI Erwin de Blok), Deep Continuum Survey (Kurt van der Heyden) |
| 2009 - | Member of WALLABY (Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY), the HI survey to be performed with ASKAP , the Australian SKA Pathfinder |
| 2009 - 2011 | Member of the South African NRF Rating Panel for Physics |
| 2005 - | Member of SASTTAC (South African SALT Telescope Time Allocation Committee) |
| 2005 - | Member of the Steering Committee of NASSP (National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme) |
| 2006 - | Member of the Local Executive Committee of NASSP (National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme) |
| 2003 - 2008 | Member of the Organizing Committee of Commission 28 (Galaxies) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) |
| 2003 - 2004 | Secretary of the Mexican National Committee of the IAU (International Astronomical Union) |
| 2002 - | Member of the 6dF Galaxy Survey Team |
| 1995 - | Member of the Parkes Multibeam Survey Working Group (MSWG) |
SOC member and co-host through UCT of the International Meeting on Panoramic Radio Astronomy: Wide-field 1-2 GHz research on galaxy evolution, 2-5 June 2009, Groningen, the Netherlands:
LOC member of Beyond 2010, Fifth International Conference on Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics, 1-6 February 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
SOC member of the proposed IAU Symposium The spectral energy distribution of galaxies (SED2011), 5-12 September 2011, University of Central Lancashire, UK
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