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| 1988 | Habilitation, University of Zurich |
| 1982 | Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Zurich |
| 1977 | M.A. in Sociology, Mass Communication, Social Psychology, University of Zurich |
| 2004-2015 | Director, Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, University of Zurich |
| 2000/2001 | Director, Department of Sociology, University of Zurich |
| 1994-present | Professor of Sociology, University of Zurich, Zurich |
| 1990-2005 | Professor of Sociology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich |
| 1988-1994 | Privatdocent in Sociology, University of Zurich, Zurich |
| 1980-1988 | Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Zurich |
| 2023 | William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development bestowed by the European Association of Developmental Psychology (EADP). European Conference for Developmental Psychology, Turku, Finland, August 28. |
| 2020 | Honorary Doctorate of the University of Bern |
| 2012-2013 | Fellow at the Center for Advaned Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, CA |
| 2007-present | International Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Social Inequality, Stanford University, CA |
| 2007-2008 | Fellow at the Center for Advaned Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, CA (lead fellow for the Special Project Comparative Perspectives on Adolescent Development in a Globalizing World. |
| 2002-2003 | Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. |
| 2001 | Elected Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina |
| 1989-1990 | Visiting Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, Center for European Studies and Department of Sociology (Swiss Chair, Fellowship by the Swiss National Sience Foundation) |
| 1987-1988 | Fellowship of the Committee for the Promotion of Young Academics, University of Zurich |
| 1985-1986 | Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation:
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| 2022-2024 | Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Turku, Finland |
| 2014 | Visiting Professorship (invited), University of Vienna. |
| 2000 | Visiting Professor (Invited), Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, Winter Quarter 2000. |
| 1997 | Visiting Scholar (Invited), Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, September 1997-January 1998. |
| 1996 | Visiting Professor (Invited), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), November. |
| 1995 | Visiting Professor (Invited), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), April. |
| 1994 | Visiting Professor (Invited), Department of Sociology, New York University. New York. September-October. |
| 1993 | Visiting Professor (Invited), Center for the Study of Status Passages and Risks in the Life Course, University of Bremen, Germany, December. |
| 1992 | Visiting Research Scholar at the New School of Social Research (Invited), Center for the Study of Social Change. |
| 2022-2025 | Scientific Advisory Board of MapIneq (Mapping Inequality) with partners in Estonia, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK) funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation program. |
| 2021-2027 | Scientific Advisory Board of FLUX Strategic Research Consortium Family Formation in Flux – Causes, Consequences and Possible Futures; University of Helsinki, University of Turku amongst others, Finland; funded by Strategic Research Council (SRC), Academy of Finland; 2021-2027. |
| 2018-present | European Research Council, Member of the Evaluation Panel for Social Sciences and Humanities, Starting Grants |
| 2018-present |
Chair of Board of Trustees of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, University of Bamberg |
| 2015-2020 | Appointed General Editor of Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource. Wiley: Online. (Together with Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn). |
| 2014-2022 | Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) LIVES – Overcoming Vulnerabilities: Life Course Perspectives, University of Lausanne. |
| 2014-2017 | Board of Trustees of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories at the University of Bamberg. |
| 2011 | DFG Priority Program National Educational Panel Study (N.E.P.S.): Appoint-ed Member of the Review Panel. |
| 2011 | German Council of Science and Humanities German Excellence Initiative: Appointed Member of the Peer Review Process. |
| 2011-2013 | Appointed Member of the European Research Council (ECR) Starting Grants Evaluation Panel, Brussels |
| 2008-2010 | Member of the Scientific Board of the Research Program The Discovery of Learning Potentials Early in the Life Course (Prof. Dr. Heike Solga), Science Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin |
| 2007-2011 | Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Encyclopedia of Adolescence (edited by B. Bradford B. Brown and Mitch Prinstein) |
| 2007-2015 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung. |
| 2005-2007 | Consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio program: Reviewer for the Social Sciences |
| 2002-2007 | Member of the Scientific Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development Berlin. |
| 2001-2004 | German Research Council: Scientific Member of the Senate in Charge of the Special Research Programs |
| 2001-2004 | Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung: Member of the Scientific Board of the Transcoop Program (Trans-Atlantic Research Cooperation) |
| 2000-2006 | Board Member of the European Consortium of Sociological Research (ECSR) |
| 1998-2005 | Member of the Scientific Board of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Cologne, Germany |
| 1998-2005 | Member of the Scientific Board of ZUMA (Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen), Mannheim, Germany |
| 1998-2000 | Member of the Presidential Committee of the Max-Planck-Society for the Group of Young Academics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin. |
| 1997-2005 | Member of the Scientific Board of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin. |
| 2000 | Ad-hoc member of the Scientific Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin, for the Six-Year Evaluation of the Institute. |
| 1998 | Ad-hoc member of the Scientific Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin; evaluation of the department "Education, Employment, and Social Change" (Professor Karl Ulrich Mayer). |
| 2021-2024 | Social Science Infrastructure Project: Swiss Job Market Monitor (SJMM) (SNF Grant) |
| 2020-2023 |
Monitoring Task and Skill Profiles in the Digital Economy: Employers’ Changing Skill Demand and Workers’ Career Outcomes (National Research Program 77: Digital Transformation) (SNF Grant) |
| 2017-2020 | Social Science Infrastructure Project: Swiss Job Market Monitor (SJMM) (SNF Grant) |
| 2013-2016 |
Social Science Infrastructure Project Transforming the Swiss Job Market Monitor into a Scientific Use Files (SNF Grant) |
| 2014-2016 | COCON – on Children and The Swiss Survey Youth – 6th and 7th Survey Wave (SNF Grant) |
| 2011-2013 | COCON – on Children and The Swiss Survey Youth – 4th and 5th Survey Wave (SNF Grant) |
| 2008-2010 | COCON –on Children and The Swiss Survey Youth – 3rd Survey Wave (SNF Grant) |
| 2006-2007 | First Swiss Report on Childhood and Adolescence (SNSF, NFP52) |
| 2005-2006 | COCON In-Depth Study: Social Competences in Childhood (SNSF,NFP52) |
| 2005-2008 | International Research Network Comparative Perspective on Adolescent Development in a Globalizing World (Jacobs Foundation) |
| 2003-2006 | COCON – The Swiss Survey on Children and Youth (SNSF, NFP52) |
| 2002-2005 | BISS – Berufsbezogenens Informationssystem Schweiz (BBT, Bundesamt für Berufsbildung und Technologie) (only smaller grant mentioned) |
| 2000-2003 | Qualification, Dynamics of Skill Demand and Career Outcomes (SNSF, NFP43) |
| 1996-2003 | Determinants of Trends and Fluctuations in Skill Demand 1950-2002 (SNSF, Swiss Priority Program Switzerland: Towards the Future) |
| 1996-1999 | Women’s Labor-Market Integration (SNSF,Swiss Priority Program Switzerland: Towards the Future) |
| 1993-1996 | Further Education and Employment Chances (SNSF, NFP33) |
| 1988-1991 | Swiss Life History Study (Basic Research, SNSF) |
| 2015 | Guest-Editor (together with Professor Tina Malti and Dr. Annekatrin Steinhoff for the Special Issue “Social Inequality, Life Course Transitions, and Adolescent Socioemotional and Productive Development.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence |
| 2014 | Guest-Editor (together with Professor Heike Solga) for the Special Issue “School-to-Work Transitions Across Time and Place: Patterns, Socioeconomic Achievement and Parenthood.” For Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. |
| 2014 | Guest-Editor (together with Professor Tina Malti and Professor Heike Solga) for the Special Sec-tion “Transition to Young Adulthood: The Significance of Inequalities of Resources and Contextual Variations.” For Longitudinal and Life Course Studies |
| 2014 | International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Challenges in the Third Decade of Life: Individual Development and Health, Social Opportunities and Inequalities at Castle Herrenhausen, Hanover. Grant by the VW Foundation (co-organized with Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University, and Iris Litt, Stanford University). |
| 2013 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Empirical Research in Educational and Vocational Training. |
| 2012 | International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Promoting Positive Develop-ment in the Third Decade of Life; June 4-6, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciencces at Stanford University (co-organized with Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University, and Iris Litt, Stanford University). |
| 2011 | DFG Priority Program National Educational Panel Study (N.E.P.S.): Review Panel. |
| 2011 | German Council of Science and Humanities German Excellence Initiative: Appointed Member of the Peer Review Process for Humboldt University, Berlin. |
| 2011 | Member of the Selection Committee for the Chair of Social Stratification and Inequality at the European University Institute, Florence. |
| 2005-present | International Research Network Comparative Perspectives on Adolescent Development in a Globalizing World with conferences held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Stanford University, CA (August 2005, April 2008), Buenos Aires (July 2006), Philadelphia (2007). |
| 2005 | Member of the Conference Organization Committee of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) for the Conference “Comparative European Studies: Assessing Ten Years of Sociological Research”, Paris, November 24-26. |
| 2005 | Organization of the international Conference „Comparative Perspectives on Adolescent Development in a Globalizing World: Changing Opportunities, Constraints and Pathways of Risk”. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA., August 4-6. |
| 2004 | Vice-Chair of the Euresco Conference “European Society or European Societies? On the Causes and Consequences of Low Education in Contemporary Europe”, Granada, September 18-23. |
| 2004 | Member of the Scientific Committee for the Conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 (RC28) “Social Stratification and Mobility, Neuchâtel, May, 7-9. |
| 2000 | Member of the Evaluation Group of the Social Sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin. |
| 2000 | Member of the Selection Committee for the Chair of Social Stratification and Inequality at the European University Institute, Florence |
| 2000 | Co-organization (with Professor Karl Ulrich Mayer and PD Michael Corsten, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin) of the conference "The Future of Work", Jacobs Foundation, Marchbach Castle, November 10-12 |
| 1997-1999 | European Sociological Association: Re-elected Member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President, responsible for research networks |
| 1997 | Member of the Evaluation Group appointed by the Scientific Council of Germany charged with the evaluation of social science institutions in Germany ("Gesellschaft für sozialwissenschaftliche Einrichtungen e.V." Bonn, Köln, Mannheim) |
| 1995-1997 | European Sociological Association: Member of the Executive Committee |
| 1996 | Co-organization of the sessions "Democracy in Europe: Institutions and Citizenship" at the Third European Conference of Sociology of the European Sociological Association (with Professor Klaus Eder and Dr. Oliver Schmidtke, Humbold University Berlin), Colchester, August 27-30 |
| 1995 | Co-organization (with Professor Volker Bornschier) of the spring conference of the Research Committee 28 (Social Stratification and Mobility) of the International Sociological Association, Zurich, May 25-27 |
| 1991-1994 | European Sociological Review: Member of the Editorial Board |
| 1984-1991 | Associate Editor of the Swiss Journal of Sociology |
| 1982-1989 | Member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss Sociological Association, Elected-at-Large |
