About me

Research Interests

Sociology of education; stratification, class and mobility; social structure and social change; life course research; sociology of labour markets; sociology of work and occupations; sociology of the middle class; gender inequality; homogamy; statistical methods; longitudinal methods of social research; cross-national comparisons; welfare regimes

Academic Positions

   
03/2022 - presentPostDocUniversity of Innsbruck (AT)
09/2017 - 03/2022Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Leipzig (DE)
10/2016 - 08/2017PostDocUniversity of Leipzig (DE)

Education

   
10/2012 – 07/2017DPhilNuffield College, University of Oxford (GB)
03/2010 - 08/2010ErasmusUniversity of Trento (IT)
10/2007 - 08/2012Diploma in SociologyUniversity of Bamberg (DE)

Research Stays

   
04/2025Visiting ResearcherMasaryk University (CZ)
12/2024Visiting ResearcherGESIS (DE)
09/2015 - 11/2015Visiting ResearcherSciences Po (FR)
09/2014 - 10/2014Visiting ResearcherYale University (US)

Awards

  
04/2020 - presentMember of the Young Academy Mainz, Academy of Science and Literature Mainz
10/2013 - 10/2016Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation