Curriculum Vitae

Education

2010	Habilitation in Sociology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Department of Sociology, Germany.
	Habilitation thesis: “Intergenerational Relations in Stepfamilies. The Impact of Biological and Social Parenthood on Parent-Child-Relations in Adulthood”
2003	PhD in Sociology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Department of Sociology, Germany
	PhD thesis: “Social Distance as a Context for Integration. Ethnic Boundary Drawing and the Integration of Migrants in Germany”
	Passed with Distinction (summa cum laude)
1997	Master in Sociology, Leipzig University, Department of Sociology Germany
	Master thesis: “The Division of Household Labour in Cohabiting Couples”

 

Academic Positions

2011 - Present	Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2015 - 2017	Vice Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2013 - 2015	Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
1998 - 2011	Research Associate to Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nauck, Chemnitz University of Technology, Department of Sociology, Germany
2010 - 2011	Project Coordinator of the DFG-Long Term Project “Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics” (pairfam)
2010	Visiting Professor, Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Social Sciences, Chair of Microsociology
2008 - 2010	Research Associate of the Chemnitz Group of the DFG-Program 1161 “Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics” (pairfam)
2004 - 2006	Grant of the Academy and Science Program (HWP) for Habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Chemnitz University of Technology
1998 - 2000	Research Associate in the International Comparative Research Project ‚Contextual and Familial Influences on the Acculturation Process of Migrants from the former Soviet Union in Germany and Israel’ (funded by VW Foundation).
1997 - 1998	Research Associate to Prof. Dr. Johannes Huinink, Leipzig University, Department of Sociology, Germany

 

Awards and Fellowships

2004	Fellowship of the Academy and Science Program (HWP) for Habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Chemnitz University of Technology. Duration: February 2004-December 2006
2000	Research Award ‚Migration and Integration’ of the European Forum of Migrantion Studies (efms), Institute at the Bamberg University, for the Dissertation „Social Distance as a Context of Integration. Ethnic Boundary Drawing and the Integration of Migrants in Germany“
1999	Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to work on my PhD-Thesis at the State University New York (SUNY) at Albany, New York, USA. February-September
1999	Grant from the ‚European Science Foundation’ for participating at the conference „European Societies or European Society? Migrations and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Europe.“ Obernai, France, 23.-28. September

 

Other Professional Activities

2023 - Present	Mentor in the Cornelia Harte Mentor Program, University of Cologne
since 2021	Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) Editorial Board
2018 - Present	Chairman of the Senate of the University of Duisburg-Essen
2018 - Present	Board Member of the Committee on Family Research (RC06/CFR) of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
2016 - 2017	Member of the managing board of the Interdisciplinary Center of Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM) at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2016 - Present	Member of the Senate of the University of Duisburg-Essen
2014 - 2022	Chair of the Scientific Board of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS)
2014 - Present	Editorial Board of the Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation [Journal of the Sociology of Parenting and Socialization]
2012 - Present	Editor of Series “Familienforschung” [Family Research] at Springer
2011 - Present	Associate Editor of Versita
2011 - 2022	Member of the Scientific Board of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS)
2010-2014	Chair of the Section on ‘Sociology of the Family’ of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
2009-2014	Board-Member of the Section on ‘Sociology of the Family’ of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
2008-2009	Representative of Ph.D.-Students and Post-Docs at the ‘Fakultaetsrat’ of the Faculty of Philosophy at Chemnitz University of Technology
1999-2008	Coordinator of the Erasmus Program of the Faculty of Philosophy at Chemnitz University of Technology

 

Research Stays Abroad

2021	Visiting Scholar at the Life Course and Social Inequality Research Centre (LINES), University of Lausanne, Switzerland; collaboration with Prof. Laura Bernardi.
2016	Visiting Scholar at the Aging Studies Institute (ASI) at the Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Collaboration with Prof. Merril Silverstein
2000	Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany, Collaboration with Prof. Richard Alba (Grant of the DAAD)
1998	Visiting Scholar at the Department of Social Work at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Collaboration with Prof. Vered Slonim-Nevo

 

Professional Memberships

since 2019 European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)

• Committee “Family Demography and Family Law”

since 2015 German Association of Demography (DGD)

since 2003 German Sociological Association (DGS)

• Section on Migration and Interethnic Relations

• Section on Family

• Sektion on Ageing and Society

since 2000 American Sociological Association (ASA)

• Section on International Migration

• Section on Family

• Section on Ageing and the Life Course

• Section on Sociology of Population

since 1999 International Sociological Association (ISA)

• Committee on Family Research (RC06)

 

Reviews for Journals and Organizations

Research Foundations

• German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Swiss National Science Foundation (FNSNF)

• National Research Fund Luxembourg (FNR)

• Scientific Commission Lower Saxony

• Czech Science Foundation (GAČR)

• Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)

• Volkswagen Foundation

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC)

• The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 

 

National (German) Journals

• Journal of Sociology (Zeitschrift für Soziologie) (ZfS)

• Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft (CPoS)

• Journal of Sociology of Parenting and Socialization (Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation) (ZSE)

• Journal of Family Research (Zeitschrift für Familienforschung) (ZfF)

• Gender. Journal of Gender, Culture and Society (Gender Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft)

 

International Journals

• Acta Paediatrica 

• Advances in Life Course Research (ALCR)

• Aging and Mental Health

• BMJ Paediatrics Open 

• Childhood 

• Children

• Demographic Research

• Demography

• Family Process (FP)

• European Journal of Ageing

• European Psychologist (EP)

• European Sociological Review (ESR)

• Family Relations

• International Journal of Intercultural Relations (IJIR)

• International Journal of Psychology (IJP)

• International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (IJSA)

• Journal of Comparative Family Studies (JCFS)

• Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS)

• Journal of Family Issues (JFI)

• Journal of Family Studies

• Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (JGSS)

• Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF)

• Journal of Population Ageing (JPOA) 

• Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS)

• Plos One

• Social Indicators Research (SOCI)

• Social Science Research (SSR)

• Time & Society