Professional Activities

MEMBERSHIPS
German Sociological Association (DGS) and Family Sociology Division, German Sociological Association (DGS)
International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP)

JOURNAL REVIEWER
European Journal of Social Psychology
International Journal of Psychology
International Review of Sociology
Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Journal of Child and Family Studies
Journal of Family Research (Zeitschrift für Familienforschung)
Nature Human Behavior
Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Political Psychology
Politics, Groups, and Identities
Social Development
Sociological Quarterly

MEMBER SELECTION COMMITTEES
University of Bremen, Berninghausen Teaching Award (2017-2022)
BIGSSS, HWK-Fellowship (2014-2017)
BMBF and Foundation Begabtenförderung berufliche Bildung, Scholarships for Professional Advancement (since 2013)
Stifterverband, Fellowships for Innovations in University Teaching (2013-2020)

Ph.D. THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER
-Marufa Akter: "Women Political Participation in Bangladesh Parliament: A Case Study Analysis of Substantive Representation of Women" (completed)
-Aya Alwais: "Identity Changes Among Syrians in Germany and Turkey"
-Jelisaveta Belić: "Negotiating Values in a Complex World: Well-Being Implications for Emerging Adults"
-Tanya Keni "Honor, Dignity, and Migration: Navigating Cultural Norms and Threat Responses among Native Indians, Germans, and Indian Migrants in Germany" (completed)
-Priyadarshani Premarathne: "Job Quality and Quality of Life of Formal Sector Employees in Sri Lanka" (completed)
-Rena Tecklenburg: "Intergenerational Value Transmission in Bi-national Families"

PH.D. THESIS EXAMINER
Adriana Berrueto ("Mobility, Social Identity and Subjective Well-Being of Third Culture Kids"), Nadine Binder (“Promoting and Assessing Undergraduate Students’ Intercultural Competence Development"), Evgenia Bystrov ("The Second Demographic Transition Theory in Practice: The Case of Israel"),  Nate Breznau ("Public Opinion and Social Policy"), Georgi Dragolov ("Revising the Link between Inequalities and Subjective Well‐Being"), Ulrike Ehrlich ("Combining Family Care and Paid Work"), Lusine Grigoryan ("Beyond Us versus Them: Explaining Intergroup Bias in Multiple Categorization"), Steffen Hagemann (“Zwischen Druck und Angemessenheit. Deutungsprozesse in der Auseinandersetzung sozialpolitischer Akteure über Reformen der Alterssicherung in Deutschland und Großbritannien"), Florian Hertel ("Social Mobility over the Course of the 20th Century in the United States and Germany"), Karina Hoekstra-Wibowo ("Racism and Ageism in Health Care - A Comparison between Germany, the Netherlands and Indonesia"), Juliane Klein ("Transferring Professional Knowledge and Skills: Institutional Strategies and Individual Experiences in the Case of Central and Eastern European Migrant Physicians in German Hospitals"), Diletta Luminari ("Journeys to parenthood for Italian homosexuals"), Thomas Lux ("Dissecting Later-life Employment: Social Structure of Work after Pension Age in Germany and United Kingdom"), Mauricio Reichenbachs ("Corporatism is dead, long live corporatism!"), Maike Schulz ("Reading Between the Lines - The Role of Education for Healthcare Utilization in Today's European Healthcare Systems"), Audris Umel ("Social Representations and Social Media: Exploring Facebook and Shared Meanings of Migration among Filipino Migrants in Germany"), Nora Waitkus (“Wealth Inequality in Western Capitalist Societies")

SELECTED OTHER SERVICES
Member of the Academic Senate of University of Bremen (2015-2019)
Member of the Research Commission at University of Bremen (2017-2021)
Member of the Faculty Council Social Sciences, University of Bremen (2015-2017)