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Curriculum Vitae
Education and academic career
Since 2016 Professor for Political Sociology at Philipps University Marburg.
| Feb 2021 | Call as W3 Professor "Sociological Theory and History of Theory", Goethe University Frankfurt, acceptance of the offer to stay at UMR |
| Oct 2020 | Appointment as W3 Professor ("Political Sociology"), Philipps University Marburg |
| Mar 2020 | Call as W3 Professor "Sociology with a focus on social analysis and social change", Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, acceptance of the offer to stay at UMR |
| April 2018 | Successful completion of the habilitation procedure at the University of Hamburg, authorisation to teach in the subject of sociology. Title of habilitation thesis: Ansteckung - Zirkulation - Konnektivität: Zur politischen Soziologie des Globalen |
| Nov 2015 | Acceptance of the call to the professorship "Political Sociology" (W2), Philipps University Marburg, appointment as of 1 January 2016 |
| June 2015 | Call as Assistant Professor/Senior Lecturer for Security Studies, University of Groningen, not accepted |
| 2010-2015 | Research assistant at the Chair of General Sociology and Sociological Theory, University of Hamburg |
| 2010 | PhD in Sociology at the University of Basel ("summa cum laude") |
| 2005-2010 | Research assistant in general sociology and cultural sociology at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Basel |
| 2005 | Scholarship of the Evangelisches Studienwerk "Villigst" |
| 2004 | Scholarship of the State Foundation of the Hansestadt Hamburg |
| 2003 | Master's degree in Political Science, Sociology and Modern German Literature, University of Hamburg |
International Short-Term Research Stays
| July 2014 | Visiting Researcher at the International Law and Theory Center at the University of Westminster |
| 2013-2014 | Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of DFG „Medienkulturen der Computersimulation“ (MECS) at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, project on modelling global contagion processes |
| July 2013 | Visiting Researcher at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh |
| Oct 2009 | Visiting Researcher at the Goldsmiths College (University of London) |
| Dec 2006 | Research stay at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, attending the postgraduate course Security Theory - Critical Innovations with Ole Wæver |
| July 2005 | Research stay at the University of Essex, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis |