Curriculum Vitae

Since 2022

Head of the Research Unit "Causes and developments of deviant behaviour" at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN)

Since 2021

Research Assistant at the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) and the Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM), University of Bremen (Prof. Betina Hollstein and Prof. Michael Windzio)

2020

Doctor of Social Sciences at the University of Goettingen (grade: “summa cum laude”) – Thesis: “Determinants and consequences of recent immigrants’ integration in Germany. The role of social networks” (Prof. Silke Hans, Prof. Michael Windzio and Prof. Matthias Koenig)

2020

Visiting Researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague (Prof. Marcel Lubbers)

2014-2020

Research Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, University of Goettingen (Prof. Silke Hans)

2014

Master of Arts (M.A.) “Sociology” at the University of Goettingen (grade: 1,1) – Thesis: “One-way or return? An analysis of return intentions among recently arrived Polish and Turkish immigrants in Germany” (Prof. Silke Hans and Prof. Claudia Diehl)

2013-2014

Visiting Student in the Research Master’s Programme “Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism”, Utrecht University

2011

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) “Sociology” (minor: Political Science) at the University of Goettingen (grade: 1,1) – Thesis: “Gab es einen "Sarrazin-Effekt"? Die jüngere Entwicklung fremdenfeindlicher Einstellungen in Deutschland” [“Was there a “Sarrazin Effect”? The Latest Development of Xenophobic Attitudes in Germany”] (Prof. Claudia Diehl and Prof. Karin Kurz)