Academic Education
2008 – 2014: Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Dr. phil. in sociology (summa cum laude)
• Title: Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction. An Investigation of its Cognitive Mechanisms in Germany
• Program: European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies
• Supervisors: Prof. Bernd Wegener, Prof. Jürgen Schupp
2005 – 2008: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Master of Arts, Social Sciences
2002 – 2005: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Bachelor of Arts, Social Sciences
Employment / Scholarships
Since Nov. 2017: Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich
2015 – 2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Norface funded research group “The Paradox of Health State Futures” (HEALTHDOX), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
2011 – 2013: Doctoral Researcher in DFG-funded research project “The Legitimation of Inequalities” (SFB 882), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld
2008 – 2011: Doctoral scholarship funded under the Initiative for Excellence Program of the German Federal and State Governments
2006 – 2008: Research Assistant in DFG-funded research project “International Social Justice Project” at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
2004 – 2006: Research Assistant at the Robert Koch Institute, Department of Epidemiology, Berlin
Research Visits
2009 and 2014: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin
2012: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2011: European University Institute, Florence, Italy
2010: University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
2007: United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), Brussels Office, Belgium