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)
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, 19 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 70 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, 12 national funding agencies (Flanders/Belgium, 4*Germany, Israel, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,, Romania, Switzerland), and 1 accreditation institution
Reviewer for 45 SSCI-listed journals, 2 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 133 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 17 PhD theses (10*1st, 7*2nd supervisor) and 13 PhD oppositions in addition; currently acting as supervisor for 8 PhD students (5*1st, 3*2nd supervisor)