April 2011 - present
Professor für Sociology, in particular Sociology of Social Change, Universität Hamburg
2010 - 2015
Head of an independent research group "Social Capital in the Life Course" (Schumpeter-Fellowship der VolkswagenStiftung) located at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and at Universität Hamburg
2009 - 2010
John F. Kennedy Fellow at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
2004
Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin
2002 - 2009
Research Assistant, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Department "Inequality and Social Integration" (Prof. Dr. Jens Alber)
1998 - 2002
Research Asisstant, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Department "Social Structure and Social Reporting" (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Zapf)
1998
Freelance work, German Trade Union Federation (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund)
Main areas of research: social inequality and social structure in comparative welfare states with emphasis on poverty and integration, consequences of social mobility, social capaital in the life course, life satisfaction in Europe, education and employment history
