Professional Background

since 09/2011

Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany

09/2011 - 04/2013

Academic Coordinator of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) and Research Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany

02/2010 - 03/2010

Visiting Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley, USA

11/2009 - 01/2010

Visiting Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, USA

06/2008 - 08/2011

Doctoral Fellow, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany

10/2007 - 05/2008

Doctoral Fellow, MaxNetAging Research School (MNARS), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

Academic Education and Degrees

07/2012

Doctor of Economics and Social Sciences (Dr. rer. pol., Ph.D equivalent), University of Cologne, Germany; Thesis: "The Economization of the Sacred. The Transformation of the Funeral Market in Germany" (written in German)

03/2007

Diplom (M.A. equivalent) in Sociology, Free University of Berlin, Germany; Thesis: "New Religious Movements and Violence" (written in German)

09/2005 - 12/2005

Visiting Student, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland

04/2004

Vordiplom (B.A. equivalent) in Sociology, Free University of Berlin, Germany; Thesis: "Images of Women in Popular Culture" (written in German)

04/2002 - 03/2007

Studies of Sociology, Philosophy, Political Sciences and Ethnomusicology, Free University of Berlin, Germany

08/1990 - 07/1999

Attendance at the secondary school St. Bernhard Gymnasium Willich, Germany; Final secondary school exam (Abitur) in June 1999

Scholarships

01/2011 - 08/2011

Full Fellowship for Doctoral Studies, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany

10/2007 - 12/2010

Full Fellowship for Doctoral Studies, Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging)

09/2005 - 12/2005

Foreign Exchange Scholarship, ERASMUS-Program

Memberships in Professional Associations

since 04/2011

European Sociological Association (ESA), Section on Economic Sociology

since 03/2011

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Section on Markets, Firms, and Institutions

since 01/2009

German Sociological Association (DGS), Section on Economic Sociology