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