Promotion of Early Career Researchers
Supervision of PhD Thesis
ongoing dissertations
Julio Iturra: "Ties Matter: The Role of Interpersonal Networks on Attitudes towards the Role of the State, the Market, and the Community on Shaping Economic Inequality", Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), First Supervisor, ongoing
Gonzalo Arevalo Iglesias: "Family Solidarity and Welfare Preferences in Cross-National Perspective", Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), First Supervisor, ongoing
Anne Speer, "Worldview- and Status-based Intergroup Bias", Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Second Supervisor (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Olaf Groh-Samberg)
Margherita Cusmano: "How do Migrants in Germany make Sense of Economic Inequality?", Max Planck Institut for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Committee member, ongoing
Nadine Maser: "Social Status as a Category of Discrimination. A Case Study on the Role of Inequality in Public Administration", University of Hamburg, Second Supervisor (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel), ongoing
completed dissertations
Florian Buchmayr, Attitudes and Social Positions. Social Structural Determinants of Ideological Beliefs. University of Bremen, Second Supervisor (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Olaf Groh-Samberg), ongoing
Sthamer, Evelyn: "Inequality Perceptions and their Consequences: Sentiments of Injustice, Right-Wing Populism, and Solidarity with the Poor", First Supervisor (Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carsten G. Ullrich), University of Bremen, completed
Katharina Kunißen, The Independent Variable Problem. Welfare Stateness as an Explanatory Concept, University of Mainz, Second Supervisor (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gunnar Otte), completed. Best Dissertation award by Section "Social Inequality and Social Structure", German Sociological Association
Carlotta Giustozzi, Social Consequences of Labour Market Marginalization, Goethe University Frankfurt, Second Supervisor (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Gangl), completed. Best Dissertation award by Section "Social Inequality and Social Structure", German Sociological Association
Sara Weckemann, Large Families on Welfare, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (Comitee member, First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streeck, Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Axel Honneth), completed
Support of Postdoctoral Researchers
Mentor for Dr. Lukas Pfäffle, University of Heidelberg, within the heiTRACKS mentoring scheme of the University of Heidelberg
Mentor for Daniel Moosdorf, University of Marburg, within the DIFIS mentoring scheme