Curriculum Vitae

2017-2020
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Since Winter semester 2008
Professor of Sociology with a focus on social structure analysis at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

2007-2008
Professor of Sociology with a focus on "Comparison of Modern Contemporary Societies" at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Leipzig

2006-2007
Representation of the professorship "Comparison of modern contemporary societies" at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Leipzig

2006
Habilitation at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

Scientific assistant at the universities of Bremen, Bielefeld and Bamberg

Scientific Associate at ZUMA, Mannheim

1996
Doctorate at the University of Mannheim

Scientific Associate at the University of Mannheim

Studied sociology at the University of Mannheim and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA