Curriculum Vitae

06/2015 Habilitation (Venia Legendi in Sociology), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

07/2013 Dr. disc. pol. in Sociology, Georg August University of Göttingen (summa cum laude)

03/2009 M.A. in Sociology, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies, University of Leipzig (with distinction)

since April 2020 Heisenberg Professor of Sociology

2019-2020 Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation

2015-2019 Assistant Professor [Akademischer Oberrat a.Z.], Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2014-2015 Assistant Professor [Akademischer Rat a.Z.], University of Wuppertal

2010-2014 Research Associate, Georg August University Göttingen

2009 Research Associate, University of Leipzig

2016/17 Fritz Thyssen Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

2013/14 Visiting Scholar, University of Bern, Switzerland

2012 Fulbright Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Memberships

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Sektion Politische Soziologie)
• European Sociological Association (RN31 - Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism)
• Arbeitskreis Quantitative Religionsforschung

Editorial Activities

• managing editor for Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik (ZRGP)

Reviewer Activities

• Journals: Acta Sociologica, American Journal of Political Science, European Sociological Review, Human Studies, International Political Sociology, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Choice Modelling, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Methods Data Analyses, Scientometrics, Social Science Research, Social Currents, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Methods and Research, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie
• Research Foundations: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Fulbright Commission, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk