Dissertator in Sociology

      Master's degree, August 2006

University of Cologne, Germany, 2001-2004
      Graduate studies in Social Sciences, 2002-2004
      Undergraduate studies in Economics/Sociology, 2001-2002

      ‘Vordiplom’ (BA), October 2002

Project Assistant, Wisconsin Center for Educational Research &

      Department of Educational Policy Analysis, 2005-2008

Teaching Assistant, University of Cologne, Research Institute

     for Sociology & Institute for Applied Social Science Research,

     2003-2004

Project Assistant, Max Planck Institute for the Study of

      Societies, Cologne, 2001-2004

Dissertation Research Award, Institute for Research on

      Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-2009

European Recovery Program Scholarship awarded by the

      German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and

      the German National Merit Foundation, 2007-2009

Fulbright Scholarship. 2004-2005

Scholarship offer of the German Academic Exchange Service,

      DAAD, 2004-2005 (declined)

Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation

      (‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’), 2002-2006

Sociology of Education, since 2008

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, since 2005

International Sociological Assoc. (RC-28), since 2005

Graduate Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty, UW Madison, since 2007

      educational attainment and its institutional context.”

      European Sociological Review 25(5) [download]

Department of Sociology

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