Teaching
My teaching experience
Overall, I taught 129 courses at BA, MA, and PhD/Post-doc level in Germany (Bamberg, Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hanover, Kassel, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Nuremberg and Oldenburg), Bulgaria (Varna), Estonia (Tallinn), Italy (Trento), Switzerland (Zurich) and Taiwan (Taipei). Beyond my teaching obligations as a method professor I have specialized in holding method workshops at methods schools, grad schools and research institutes. Next to teaching introductory method courses I have gained substantial experience in teaching advanced methods of quantitative data analysis. I gave
35 courses in modern causal analysis (DAGs, counterfactuals, matching, IPW, IV, selection correction/control functions, difference-in-differences) (+ 1 course scheduled)
26 courses in advanced regression analysis (+ 3 courses scheduled)
12 courses in panel data analysis
10 courses in multi-level analysis of international comparative data (+ 1 course scheduled)
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My teaching philosophy
My method workshops build on the ideas of theory-driven empirical social research, which emphasizes the link between theory and empirical applications.
In order to guarantee a practical orientation of the workshop, empirical examples are discussed and methods are applied in computer exercises using Stata and real-world data.
Instead of getting lost in the details of mathematical proofs, I focus on the interpretations of formulas and results as well as on critical thinking.
I share practical insights from applied research and introduce the participants to topical method debates from the practitioner perspective.
I am able to deal with groups of participants from different fields (sociology, economics, political science, etc.) and different levels of previous knowledge.
My teaching skills and philosophy are valued in terms of very good/excellent evaluation results and I use the insights from evaluations to further improve my courses.