CURRICULUM VITAE

ACADEMIC EDUCATION AND POSITIONS

Since 2/2018 Assistant Professor, University of Groningen

2/2015-4/2018 Post-Doc NORFACE project 'Migrants'Attitudes towards the Welfare State'(MIFARE), Prof. Claudia Diehl, University of Konstanz

4/2015 PhD defense 'Over-Education of Immigrants in Germany'(magna cum laude), Berlin Graduate School of Social Science, Berlin Humboldt University

Supervisors: Professor Ruud Koopmans and Professor Anette Fasang

9/2009-6/2011 Master of Science in Sociology and Social Research, Graduate School of Social and Behavioral Science, Utrecht University

Master thesis: Job Search Methods among Non-Western Immigrants in the Netherlands. GPA: 3.9

Supervisor: Professor Frank van Tubergen

9/2006-6/2009 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Chair of Statistics and Social Methods, University of Mannheim

Bachelor thesis: Social Capital-an International Comparison. The Influence of Social Capital and Political Trust on the Satisfaction with Democracy in Germany and the Netherlands. GPA: 3.8

Supervisor: Professor Joseph Brüderle

RESEARCH GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2/2016 Independent Research Start-Up Grant (IRSG), Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz

9/2015-2/2017 Konstanzia Fellowship, University of Konstanz

4/2013-2/2015 Doctoral scholarship awarded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

10/2011-3/2013 Doctoral scholarship awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), funded by the Initiative for Excellence Program of the German Federal and State Governments

9/2010-8/2011 German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst [DAAD]

9/2010-8/2011 Student Scholarship awarded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

9/2009-8/2011 Utrecht Excellence Scholarship, Utrecht University, Netherlands

RESEARCH VISITORSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

12/2016 Visiting scholar, Aalborg University, Department of Political Science, Aalborg, Denmark (Professor Christian Larsen)

1/2014 – 2/2015 Guest researcher, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Research Unit “Migration, Integration and Transnationalization”, Berlin, Germany ( Professor Ruud Koopmans)

9/2013-12/2013 Visiting Assistant in Research, Centre of Research on Inequalities and Life Course (CIQLE), Yale University, New Haven, USA (Professor Richard Breen)

2/2013-3/2013 Guest researcher , Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC) Oxford University, Oxford, England (Professor Nan Dirk de Graaf and Professor Duncan Gallie)

9/2012-11/2012 Guest researcher , Institute of Social Science, University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland (Professor Marc Szydlik)

12/2011- 4/2015 Guest researcher, research unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization, WZB Social Science Center Berlin (Professor Ruud Koopmans)

TEACHING

9/2018-11/2018 Co-teaching Bachelor Lecture Social and Institutional Change, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen

10/2016-2/2017 Bachelor Seminar Migration and Gender, Department of Sociology, University of Konstanz

4/2016-7/2016 Bachelor Seminar Migration and the Welfare State, Department of Sociology, University of Konstanz

9/2011-1/2012

9/2012-1/2013 University of Zurich (Professor Marco van Steenbergen and Professor Thomas Gautschi), Zurich, Switzerland

2/2008-6/2008

2/2009-6/2009 Teaching Assistant for Social Structures and Processes, Chair of Macro Sociology, University of Mannheim ( Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus), Mannheim, Germany

ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES AND THE PUBLIC

10/2018 "Migrants as beneficiaries of the welfare state? - A migrant perspective", Community in Crisis Workshop, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany

10/2017 The Compatibility of Work and Family Life among Female Migrants in Europe"". Sociology Department, Zurich University

4/2017 “Why Family Matters: A Gender Perspective on the Emergence of Social Contacts to Natives among Migrants in Germany”, RC28 Spring Conference “Social Stratification and Mobility”, Cologne, Germany

4/2017 “Educational Trajectories and Migration Background” (with Maarten Buis, University of Konstanz), ”, RC28 Spring Conference “Social Stratification and Mobility”, Cologne, Germany

8/2016 “The Family’s Influence on Inter-Ethnic Contact among Immigrants: A Gender Perspective”, RC28 Spring Conference “Economic Inequalities, Deprivation, and Poverty”, Bern, Switzerland

7/2016 “Migrants’ Attitudes to Childcare. An explorative Overview of ten Migrant Groups’ Attitudes to formal childcare in the Netherlands and Denmark”, 4th European Social Survey Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland

1/2016 “Barriers for Female Migrants on the German Labor Market”, Key note speaker, Conference of Migrantinnen-Netzwerk Bayern, Nürnberg, Germany

11/2015 Expert participant at public panel discussion about “Immigration, Integration, Intolerance!?”, Science controversial, Wissenschaft im Dialog and Südkurier Newspaper,

7/2014 “Social Support in Partnerships and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes in Germany?”, XVIII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology,RC28 Spring Conference “Social Stratification and Mobility”, Yokohama, Japan

5/2014 “Immigrant Over-Education in Germany: Human Capital Variation or Skill Underutilization?”, International Sociological Association, RC28 “Social Stratification and Mobility”, Central European University Budapest, Hungary

2/2014 “The Partner’s Role in Immigrant Labor Market Integration: Informational, Instrumental and Emotional Support” Graduate Network Conference, Sciences Po, Paris

3/2013 “Determinants of Over-Education among newly arrived immigrants in Germany”, Graduate Network Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

3/2012 “Qualified Immigrants in Germany and Great Britain: The Risk of becoming Over-Educated and its Consequences for the Occupational Pathway”, Graduate Network Conference, Berlin, Germany

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