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 Academic and Professional Background

  • Since March 2020 director of the Harriet Taylor MillInstitute
  • Since October 2017 professor for economics at the HWR Berlin 
  • 2014-2017 Professor of Social Policy and Social Economics at University of Applied Sciences Munich
  • 2011-2014 Visiting Professor of Economics at HWR Berlin and at University of Hamburg
  • 2009-2014 Chief Editor of  "Sozialer Fortschritt - German Review of Social Policy"
  • 2009 PhD in Economics from University of Koblenz-Landau
  • 2005-2010 Research Assistant at University of Koblenz-Landau
  • 2005 Graduate of Economics, Political Science and Sociology from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg

International Cooperation

Gender Equality:

Labour market and social policy:

  • Chair of the Board of the Society Gesellschaft für Sozialen Fortschritt e.V. www.sozialerfortschritt.de
  • Member of the board of the association Deutsche Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeitsmarktforschung e.V. www.samf.de
  • Member of the advisory board of the research network ‘Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research’ of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs www.fis-netzwerk.de
  • Head of the working group New Social Policy of the Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft e.V. www.asm-ev.de/AK_Neue_Sozialpolitik_I.html
  • Scientific Cooperation Partner for Labour Market Policy, WifOR Research Institute and Thinktank www.wifor.com/de/
  • Member of the Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe https://kda.de 

Promotion of young talent:

  • Head of the doctoral colloquium at the Berlin School of Economics and Law
  • Supervisor of doctoral theses in cooperation with the Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • DAAD Commissioner awarding annual scholarships to students

Reviewer:

  • Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch (JCE)
  • WSI-Mitteilungen, im Bereich »Arbeit - Wirtschaft - Soziales«
  • Hans-Böckler-Stiftung Forschungsförderung