Professional Background
Academic Education and Degrees
Scholarships and Awards
Memberships in Professional Associations
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 |