University Education

Sept 2009 - present
Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
PhD Fellowship

Oct - Dec 2011
University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada
Faculty of Education, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training (CHET)
Visiting PhD Fellowship

Oct 2002 - June 2008
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Studies in Sociology (Major) and Psychology and Criminology (Minors)
Degree: Diplom in Sociology (equivalent to MSc)
Master thesis: "Open Sesame!? The relevance of key qualifications for a successful labour market entry. An analysis based on the Bavarian Graduate Panel Survey" (Abstract)

Further Academic Training

July 2010 - Aug 2010
University of Essex
Essex Methods Summer School: Duration Models

July 2009 - Aug 2009
Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
DFG Summer Academy on Quantitative Methods of Educational Research

Awards and Grants

May 2011
Graduate Student International Research Mobility Award by the Vice-President Research & International, University of British Columbia, Canada

Feb 2011
Paper travel award in recognition of good scholarship in stratification research, Research Committee "Social stratification and mobility" (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA)

May 2010
Conference grant for excellent contributions in educational sociology, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS2)

April 2009
Ulrich-Teichler-Award for distinguished final theses
Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung GfHf (Society of Higher Education Research)