Curriculum Vitae
Since 12/2014 Junior researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Science of Social Work, Bielefeld (FHdD)
03-04/2013 Guest-lecturer at the Center of Economic and Social Analysis (cães-PURS), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio
Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
01-04/2012 Research Stay in Cuba, Scholarshipholder German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
10/2010-11/2014: PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen, PhD scholarshipholder: Dorothea Schlözer Fellowship Programme, University of Goettingen
08/2009-08/2010: Project coordinator at the Asian/Pacific and Latin American/Caribbean Division at the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and in the Latin American Division of the Deutsche Welle-Akademie
01/2009-06/2009: Researcher with the project "Religion, Coping Strategies and Health" at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
01/2009: Magister/M.A. Degree in Social Anthropology and Spanish Philology
02-04/2007: Research at the Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, Florida and in Cuba (Ciudad Habana, Habana, Pinar del Río, Matanzas, Cienfuegos), Scholarshipholder German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
02-04/2006: Ethnographic research in Cuba (Ciudad Habana, Habana, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo)
02/2006-10/2007: Participation in the collaborative research project of the social sciences department of the Georg-August-University Goettingenand the department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, entitled "Biography and Ethnicity"
09/04-09/05: Study of Social Anthropology and Spanish Philology at the University of Granada, Spain
10/2003-01/2009: Study of Social Anthropology and Spanish Philology at the University of Goettingen
Courses taught
2013/2014 Winterterm: Transnational relations of migrants. The narrative biographical interview, Center of Methods in Social Science, University of Goettingen
2013 Summerterm: "Qualitative interpretative social research", University of Applied Science of Social Work, Bielefeld (FHdD)
2013 March, April: "Reconstrução de casos - projeto infância nas Favelas", in the research project on childhood in the Favelas of
Recife, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, CAES-PUCRS Porto Alegre, CENTRAL/PUC-Rio, NEPS/UFPE Recife, at the Center of Economic and Social Analysis (cães-PURS), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
2008/2009 Winterterm: "Narrative Interviewing according to Schütze", University of Applied Science of Social Work, Bielefeld (FHdD)
Session- und Conference Organization
Session Organizer in the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama 09/2013-02/2014, Organization and Chair in the session "Biography and Politics" of the Research Committee 38 (with Prof. Dr. Michaela Köttig)
Chair in the Second ISA Forum of Sociology Buenos Aires 07/2012 Organization and Chair of the Session "The foundation of professional identities" of the Research Committee 38, International Sociological Association
Language Skills
German (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (fluent), French (conversation level), Kiswahili (conversation level)
Membership
Research Committee 38 "Biography and Society" of the International Sociological Association
Cuban Research Forum (CRF), University of Nottingham and University of Havana