Curriculum Vitae


  • Seit Oktober 2019
    Full Professor for Sociology and Sociological Theory, Institute of Sociology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

  • April 2013 – September 2019
    W1-Professor for International Comparative Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

  • September 2014 - June 2015
    John F. Kennedy Fellow am Center for European Studies der Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  • April 2013 - present
    Junior Professor for Comparative Sociology, Institute for Sociology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

  • June 2010 - March 2013
    Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

  • April 2009 - May 2010
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

  • July 2009
    Completed Summa-cum-laude Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cologne, Germany

  • January 2007 - July 2007
    Visiting Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  • October 2005 - March 2009
    Ph.D Student at the Max-Planck-Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

  • July 2005
    Graduated as Social Economist (Diploma), Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany

  • October 1998 - July 2005
    Student of Social Sciences at the Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany