Professur für Soziologie sozialer Ungleichheit, Sozialstrukturanalyse (ausgeschieden)
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
• Elected member of the German Data Forum (RatSWD) (2017-2020)
• Appointed member (by the Joint Science Conference of the Federal States and the Federal Government of Germany) of the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (RfII) (2014-2018)
• National Coordinator for the German study of the European Social Survey (ESS) (2013-2017)
• Member and head of the scientific advisory board of the German General Social Survey (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften, ALLBUS) (2008-2015)
• Since 10/2008 professor of social inequality and social structure analysis at the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University
• Since 4/2007 research fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin
• Held the chair for empirical social structure analysis at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Duisburg-Essen (2006-2008)
• Professor of sociology with focus on methodology/empirical social research at the University of Trier (2005-2006)
• Substitute professorship for empirical social structure analysis at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2004-2005)
• Head of the independent junior research group "Interdisciplinary Social Justice Research" (funded by Volkswagen Foundation) at Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin (1998-2004)
• Research assistant for methods of empirical social research at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin (1993-1998)
• Research assistant at the University of Heidelberg (1991-1993)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Post-doctoral lecturing qualification (Habilitation) at Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich (Venia: sociology), 2004
• Doctorate (sociology) at Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, 1997
• Study of Protestant and Jewish theology (diploma, 1991) and sociology (MA, 1992) at the University of Heidelberg