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Academic and Professional Career
- Since 2016: Professor of Social Sciences (with a focus on structural change and the Welfare State in international perspectives), Berlin School of Economics and Law
- 2013-2016: Research Associate and Lecturer, Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin (Area of specialization: Sociology/Labour markets and social structure in Latin America)
- 2011-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, desiguALdades.net Berlin (international research network on interdependent inequalities in Latin America)
- 2008-2011: Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, Philipps-Universität Marburg
- 2009: Doctorate, JWG-Universität Frankfurt (High Tech für Niedriglohn: Neotayloristische Produktionsregimes in der IT-Industrie in Brasilien und Mexiko – Low wages for HighTech: Neotaylorist Production Regimes in the IT-Industry in Brazil and Mexico)
- 2000-2008: Research Associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt am Main
- 1993-2000: Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Major in Sociology, minor in Economics, Political Science, and Cultural Anthropology, 1996: 1 year period of study abroad at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 1984-1993: vocational training and employment as power electronics technician, Thyssen Stahl AG, Duisburg; trade union representative and member of the workers council
Expertise in
- Sociology and Political Economy of Latin America (particularly Brazil and Mexico)
- Labour Sociology, Globalization of Work and Production
- Gender relations, precarization, (intersectionality of) social inequalities
- Information- and Communication Technology (Hardware and IT-Services)
Key Aspects of practise
- International trade union exchange programmes (particularly with regard to Brazil/ Latin America)
- Liaison lecturer of Hans-Böckler-Foundation
- Forum Neue Politik der Arbeit
- Global Labour University
Awards/Honours
2000: Elisabeth-Selbert-Preis für Diplomarbeit: „Das Ende des fordistischen Kompromisses? Implikationen für die Geschlechterverhältnisse“
External relations
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
- International Sociological Association (ISA)
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerika-Forschung (ADLAF)
- Assoziation für Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung (AKG)
- Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (HBS)
- IG Metall
- Several contacts with NGO´s and universities in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina Uruguay, Chile