Biography

1976
Born in Paderborn, Germany

Academic education and degrees

10/2007
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. soc.), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

05/2007 –12/2007
PostDoc, Philipps-Universität Marburg

03/2004 –03/2007
Doctoral Candidate, German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate school, "Group focused enmity: Causes, phenomenology, consequences"

12/2002
Diploma in Sociology, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Previous professional experience

01/2008 – 03/2008
Researcher, Chair for empirical methods for Social Research and Applied Sociology, University of Mannheim

01/2003 – 02/2004
Researcher, Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg

2004 –
Various teaching at the Universities of Marburg, Gießen, Mannheim, Essex (UK) and Lausanne (CH)

Research grants

05/2007 – 12/2007
Post Doctoral Scholarship, Philipps-Universität Marburg

09/2004
European Science Foundation (ESF), Scholarship to attend Programme Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS), ‘Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Cross-National Data’

03/2004 – 03/2007
Doctoral Scholarship, German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate school, "Group focused enmity: Causes, phenomenology, consequences"

07 – 08/2003
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Scholarship to attend the 36th Essex Summer School on Social Science
Data Analysis and Collection

06/1999 – 03/2000
ERASMUS Scholarship for study in Sociology at the University of Utrecht