Research Associate

Biography

Since 2009
Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen

2011 – 2012 (1 year)
Max-Weber-Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence.

2009
PhD (Dr. phil.), passed with distinction (summa cum laude)

International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Social Sciences

Best dissertation award of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen [Dissertationspreis Kulturwissenschaften 2010]
Best dissertation award of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen [Sparkassenpreis für herausragende Dissertationen der Universität Duisburg-Essen 2010]

2005 – 2009
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

2007/2008 (6 months)
Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE), Yale University

2003 – 2005
Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen

2002
Diplom in Sociology (MA equivalent), University of Bielefeld, Grade: 1.0/ with distinction