Academic Career

since 12/14	Head of the research group Social Conflicts SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy University of Bremen, Germany
08/12-12/14	Senior Researcher SfB 597 – Transformations of the State University of Bremen, Germany
10/11-07/12	Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessor) Chair of Comparative Politics University of Konstanz, Germany
10/07-09/11	Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter PostDoc) Department of Politics and Management University of Konstanz, Germany
10/04–09/07	Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter PostDoc) Institute of Political Science University of Hamburg, Germany
10–12/03	Postdoctoral Research Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Collaborative Research Center 597 »Transformations of the State« University of Bremen, Germany
05/03–07/04	Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Faculty of Social Sciences University of Essen-Duisburg, Germany
09-12/2001	Adjunct Faculty Department of Sociology San Diego State University, USA
02-04/2000	Visiting Research Fellow Department of Sociology Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
1999–2003	Doctoral Candidate at the Universities of Hamburg and Bremen, PhD grant from the Hans Böckler Foundation Doctoral Thesis: Identity Movements or Movement Identities? Processes of Collecitve Identity in the German Autonomous Movement and the Second Gay Movement (Identitätsbewegungen oder Bewegungsidentitäten? Prozesse kollektiver Identität bei den Autonomen und in der zweiten Schwulenbewegung in Deutschland)
1992–1997	Student at the Institute of Political Science, University of Hamburg, Germany Masters Degree (Diplom) in Political Science and Computer Science
1989–1991	Student at the Faculty of Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany