Curriculum Vitae

2010-2016

Member of the board of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences

2009

Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge

2009

Visiting Scholar at Harvard University

2005-2013

Head of the Institute of Sociology

Since 2005

Head of the Research Group LAbour, Generation, Stratification (AGES)

Since 2004

Professor of Sociology at the University of Zurich

2004

Visiting Scholar at Stanford University

2004-2019

Member of the board of the Journal of Family Research

2003-2005

Member of the Expert Commission on the Situation and Future of the Family, established by the German Federal Ministry of Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth (Family Report of the Federal Government)

2003

Visiting Scholar at Oxford University

2001-2011

Member of the board of the Research Committee 'Social Stratification' of the German Sociological Association

2001

Thyssen-Prize and Prize of the German Institute for Economic Research

2000-2004

Professor of Methods of Empirical Research at the newly founded Erfurt University

1999

Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics

1998

Habilitation (Venia Legendi for Sociology), Free University of Berlin

1997

Founding Member of Längsschnitt-Werkstatt Berlin-Brandenburg (LWBB)

1995

Visiting Scholar at Columbia University

1994-1995

Visiting Scholar at Harvard University

1993-1994, 1996-2000

Assistant Professor at the Free University of Berlin, Institute of Sociology

1993

Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and Columbia University

1993

Ph.D., Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin (Karl Ulrich Mayer) / Free University of Berlin

1990

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection. University of Essex, Colchester

1990-1993

Doctoral candidate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin

1989

Diploma, Political Science, Free University of Berlin

1987-1989

Student Assistant at the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin. Project: Socio-Economic Panel (19 hours/week)

1986

Vordiplom, Political Science and Sociology, University of Hamburg

1965

Born in Maxhütte, Germany