Curriculum vitae

Some facts and figures

• 3 MA/diploma degrees in Economics and Social Sciences (Univ. Mannheim, UCL Louvain-la-Neuve), 2010 PhD in Sociology (Univ. Mannheim)

• 2011 Junior Professor of Labour Market Sociology  (Univ. Mannheim), 2014 Full Professor - Chair of Methods of Empirical Social Research (Univ. Oldenburg), since 2014 Full Professor - Chair of Methods of Empirical Social Research (Univ. Bamberg), since 2023 Director of the Institute for Sociology (Univ. Bamberg), since 2025 Honorary Professor (Tallinn Univ.)

• Scientific co-head of pillar 5 ‘Returns to education in the life course’ of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) (since 2015) and Research Affiliate at LIfBi (since 2019)

• 2015-2018 Co-coordinator of the EU-Horizon2020 EXCEPT project (2.5 Mio €,>60 researchers in 9 countries), 2015-2019 Coordinator of the VolkswagenStiftung TEW-CCA project (0.4 Mio €, 20 researchers in 4 countries), 2018-2023 ERC Starting Grant SECCOPA (1.4 Mio €)

• International coordinator/main advisor of large-scaled nationally representative surveys in Azerbaijan (N=2002), Georgia (N=2000), Syria (N=3847) and Tajikistan (N=2000)

• Published 5 books, 2 special issues, 23 articles in SSCI journals, 3 book reviews in in SSCI journals, 8 articles in other academic journals, 20 book chapters and 30 working papers/reports

• In addition to comparative studies on Europe and the Middle East published papers on Germany, the UK, Poland, Ukraine, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Taiwan with 71 co-authors from 22 countries and various disciplines (e.g. demography, economics, educational science, psychology, sociology)

• Associate Editor of the SSCI-listed journal European Sociological Review  (2022-) and Associate Board Member of the SSCI-listed journal Work, Employment and Society  (2012–2014)

• Board member and Treasurer of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) (2021-)

• Reviewer/Panel member for 7 European/Multinational funding agencies/programs, 14 national funding agencies (Austria, Flanders/Belgium, 5*Germany, Israel, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland),  and 1 accreditation institution

• Reviewer for 50 SSCI-listed journals, 3 SCIE-listed journals,  2 ESCI-listed journals, 14 other journals/WP series/book publisher 

• Contributions at 182 conferences and workshops in 35 countries: 21 European countries (including Azerbaijan, Georgia), the Middle East (Syria, United Arab Emirates), Central Asia (Tajikistan, Kazakhstan), (South-)East Asia (China, SAR Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam), the US, and South Africa

• Taught 138 courses in Germany (Bamberg, Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hanover, Kassel, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Nuremberg and Oldenburg), Bulgaria (Varna), Estonia (Tallinn), Italy (Trento), Switzerland (Bern, Zurich), Taiwan (Taipei) and online

• Completed supervision of 18 PhD theses (10*1st, 8*2nd supervisor) and 15 PhD oppositions and 1 Habilitation opposition in addition; currently acting as supervisor for 8 PhD students (5*1st, 3*2nd supervisor)