Biography

09/2011 – 08/2012
Max-Weber-Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence.

Since October 2009
Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen

June 2009
PhD (Dr. phil.), passed with distinction (summa cum laude)

International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Social Sciences

Dissertation: From internal to informal labor markets? The ramifications of the projectification of work and employment on life course, social integration and interest representation of project workers in architecture and media.

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Streeck, Prof. Karen A. Shire Ph.D.

Best dissertation award of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen [Dissertationspreis Kulturwissenschaften 2010]
Best dissertation award of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen [Sparkassenpreis für herausragende Dissertationen der Universität Duisburg-Essen 2010]

January to September2009
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

September 2007 to February 2008
Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE), Yale University

October 2005 to December 2008
Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy)

November 2003 to September 2005
Research Associate in the project “Virtual Working and Learning in project-based networks” [Virtuelles Arbeiten und Lernen in projektartigen Netzwerken], Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen

November 2002
Diplom (MA equivalent) in Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Grade: 1.0/ with distinction

October 1997 to November 2002
Studied sociology at the Universities of Leipzig (Diplom/BA-level) and Bielefeld (Diplom/MA-level).