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)
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
Next to comparative studies on Europe and the Middle East I 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 17 European and national funding agencies/programs and 1 accreditation institution; reviewer for 45 SSCI-listed journals, 1 SCIE-listed journal, 2 ESCI-listed journals, 14 other journals/WP series/book publisher
Contributions at 181 conferences and workshops in 34 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, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam), the US, and South Africa
Taught 129 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 15 PhD theses (8*1st, 7*2nd supervisor) and 13 PhD oppositions in addition; currently acting as 1st or 2nd supervisor for 10 PhD students