LOGO

2015
Interim director of the SOCIUM - Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy

1/2011-2015
Director of the Institute of Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS), University of Bremen

10-11/2010
DAAD fellow at the American Institute of Contemporary Germany Studies, Washington D.C.

Since 3/2010
Full Professor of Sociology (W3) of Migration and Urban Research, University of Bremen

7/2008-2/2010
Associate Professor of Sociology of Migration and Urban Research, University of Bremen

10/2006 -7/2008
Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) of Sociology of Migration and Urban Research, University of Bremen

6/2005 - 9/2006
Associate director of scientific issues at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Hanover

4/2004 - 9/2006
Research fellow at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Hanover, quantitative methodology unit

1/2003 - 3/2004
Research assistant C1 at the EMPAS, University of Bremen

7/2002
Dr. rer. pol., University of Bremen
Topic: Organizational ecology of labour mobility. Evolutionary change of social structure from a life course perspective

1/2002 - 1/ 2003
Research fellow at the EMPAS, University of Bremen

8/1998 - 12/2001
Research fellow at the Special Collaborative Centre 186, University of Bremen, founded by the German Research Foundation

8/1998
M.A. Sociology and Political Sciences, University of Heidelberg, Germany

1990 - 1998
Studies in Sociology, Psychology, Political Science and Education at the University of Heidelberg, Germany