Professional Activities
Seit 2018
Deputy Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy"
Since 2015
Head of the Department of Health, Nursing and Old Age Insurance at the SOCIUM Research Center for Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen
Since 2015
Director UBC Center for Social Policy Research
Since 2010
Faculty member, Thematic Field B "Welfare State, Inequality and Quality of Life" at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Since 2006
Director, Health, Long-Term Care and Pensions Department, SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (renamed in 2015, formerly Health Economics, Health Policy and Outcomes Research Department, Centre for Social Policy Research), University of Bremen
Since December 2005
Full Professor of Health Economics at the University of Bremen
November 2004-December 2005
Professor of Health Economics and Healthcare Research, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences
2003-2014
Subproject leader, Collaborative Research Center 597 "Transformations of the State"
1999-2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics (Director: Prof. Dr. Schmähl), Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen
1996-1999
Research Associate, Department of Economics, Centre for Social Policy Research (Director: Prof. Dr. Schmähl), University of Bremen
1995-1996
Post-doc Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne
1993-1995
Research Associate, Department of Economics, Centre for Social Policy Research (Director: Prof. Dr. Schmähl), University of Bremen
1992-1993
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne
