Institute of Sociology

Scientific Background

since 2011
Professor of Sociology

with a focus on macrosociology and empirical educational research at the Department of Sociology, University of Tübingen.

since 2006
Deputy Professor of Sociology

with a focus on empirical social structure analysis at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

1993-2011
Research Assistant at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin

Department of Social Sciences, Chair of Methods and Empirical Social Research.

1993
Research associate at the University of Potsdam

Department of Social Sciences, Chair of Methods and Empirical Social Research.

1992
Research associate at the University of Heidelberg, Institute of Sociology.
1984-1991
Studied sociology, philosophy and psychology at the University of Heidelberg.