Professional Activities

2021 -
Research Professor at the University of Bremen

1999 - 2021
Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Bremen

2015 - 2021
Head of the Section ’Dynamics of Inequality in Welfare Societies’ in the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen

1999 - 2015
Head of the Section ’Gender Policy in the Welfare State’ in the Centre for Social Policy Research (ZES), University of Bremen

2007 - 2008
Vice Dean, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), University of Bremen
 
2004 - 2007
Director and Co-director, Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen

1996 - 1998
Post-doctoral Fellow, Graduate Program ’Gender Relations and Social Change’, University of Dortmund
 
1995
Guest lecturer, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Sociology Department

1988 - 1996
Assistant Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Göttingen
 
1980 - 1988
Research Associate, Sociological Research Institute (SOFI), Göttingen