Since 05/2015: Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (equiv. assistant professor) at the Institute of Sociology, Chair of Prof. Steffen Hillmert, at Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen
11/2013-04/2015: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf. Research project: "AnaGramm - Analytical Sociology as a Grammar of the Social Sciences
10/2011-10/2013: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for School Development Research of the Technical University of Dortmund in the quantitative evaluation of the research project "Ganz In - Mit Ganztag mehr Zukunft. Das neue Ganztagsgymnasium NRW\[Ganz In - All Day-Schools for a Brighter Future. The New All-Day Secondary School in NRW]