Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

02/2018
Venia legendi granted in the field of empirical social research by the university of Rostock.

11/2014
Habilitation “International comparative research on health” in the field of empirical social research at the University of Rostock, reviewers: Prof. Gabriele Doblhammer, Prof. Monika Jungbauer-Gans, Prof. Johannes Siegrist.

05/2002– 07/2006
Doctoral thesis “Socioeconomic differences in old age mortality in Denmark and the USA - with special emphasis on the impact of unobserved heterogeneity on the change of mortality differences over age”, prepared at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, supervised by Peter A. Berger and James Vaupel, awarded by the University of Rostock in the field of sociology, graded magna cum laude (0.7), and published by Springer as a monograph in the series “Demographic Methods and Population Analysis“, edited by K. Land.

2002–2004
International Max Planck Research School for Demography, Rostock
8 Seminars for doctoral students on different demographic topic

10/1993 –12/2000
Magister in Sociology, Biology, French; University Freiburg, Germany, graded 1.1.

06/1998 – 09/1999
Bachelor in Sociology, University René Descartes, Sorbonne (Paris V).

WORK EXPERIENCE

09/2021 -
W3-Professor of Sociology, with special emphasis on Social Inequalities at the University of Bamberg

03/2021 - 08/2021
W3-Professor of Methods, Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Siegen

04/2018 – 09/2020
Professor of Sociology, as temporary replacement for Prof. Peter A. Berger

11/2017 – 03/2018
Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Laboratory of Population Health, until 3/2021 guest researcher

02/2017 – 07/2018
Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute

05/2016 – 01/2017
Part-time professor and faculty member at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy

02/2013 – 01/201
Principle investigator of the project “Socioeconomic Status and Health: Disentangling causal pathways in a life course perspective (SESandHealth)” financed by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy

04/2009 – 03/2015
Senior researcher at the Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands. From April 2015 until September 2017 guest researcher

09/2008 – 08/2009
EU-grant for the Max Weber Programme, European University Institute, Florence

05/2008 – 08/2008
Visiting Scientist, Rostock Center for the Study of the Causes and Consequences of Demographic Change, Rostock, Germany

12/2004 – 04/2008
Researcher and lecturer at the chair of Empirical Social Research and Demography at the Institute of Sociology and Demography, University of Rostock, Germany

09/2001 – 11/2004
Ph.D. fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. First, working on the adult male mortality crisis in Eastern Europe; then, on my dissertation project on the socioeconomic determinants of old-age mortality in Denmark and the USA

01/2001 – 08/2001
Scientist in the EU-Research project “Patientennavigation”, Medizinischer Dienst der Krankenversicherung (MDK, Medical Health Insurance Service)

GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Reviewer for the following journals and funding institutions:
Advances in Life Course Research, Aging & Society, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being, BMC Public Health, British Medical Journal, BMJ Open, Demographic Research, Demography, European Journal of Population, European Sociological Review, Experimental Gerontology, Health & Place, Health Economics Policy and Law, Health Policy, International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, PlosOne, Soziale Welt, Population Health Metrics, Social Indicators Research, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Social Science & Medicine, Wiener Klinische Wochenzeitschrift, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Associate Editor at Frontiers in Public Health, specialty Life-Course Epidemiology and Social Inequalities in Health
Editor of the book series “Sozialstrukturanalyse” at Springer VS

HIGHER EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

Seminar "Das "alte" Referat im neuen Format", Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik der Universität Bamberg, November 2022

Seminar "Haus- und Abschlussarbeiten betreuen", Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik der Universität Bamberg, Oktober 2022

Seminar "Lernen ist nie passiv! Lehrveranstaltungen mit aktivierenden Methoden gestalten", Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik der Universität Bamberg, Mai 2022.

Seminar “Planung und Gestaltung von Lehrveranstaltungen” angeboten vom Deutschen Hochschulverband (DHV), 2018.

Seminar “Innovative approaches to fostering the teaching-research nexus”, durchgeführt von Dr. Jenni Carr (London School of Economics), 2016.

Member of:

- Interdisciplinary Health Research Group, Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
- Member of the steering committee of the DGS-Section “Medical Sociology and Health Sociology”
- DGS-Section “Social inequality and social structural analysis“
- DGS-Section “Age(ing) and Society“
- International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
- Population Association of America (PAA)
- European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)
- Association Internationale des Démographes de Langue Française (AIDELF)
- Administrative committee of the curriculum “Demographic Change” University of Rostock (2007–08)

Founding Member of:

- Verein zur Förderung sozialmedizinischer Grundlagenforschung (VSG)
- Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (CLIC) at the European University Institute, together with Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Fabrizio Bernardi and Martin Kohli (http://clic.eui.eu/Home.aspx)

Organizer of scientific conferences:

“Aktuelle Beiträge zur Medizin- und Gesundheitssoziologie“ Section Sociology of Medicine and Health, bi-annual conference of the German Sociological Association, September 2020, Berlin.
“Soziale Ungleichheit, Individualisierung, Lebenslauf” Conference of the section Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse in rerembrance of Prof. Peter A. Berger, October 2019, Rostock
“Aktuelle Beiträge zur Medizin- und Gesundheitssoziologie“ Section Sociology of Medicine and Health, bi-annual conference of the German Sociological Association, September 2018, Göttingen.
“Neue Entwicklungen in der Messung gesundheitsbezogener Ungleichheiten” Conference of the German Sociological Association and the German Association of Medical Sociology, March 2018, Munich.
“Lebenslauf, soziale Netzwerke und gesundheitliche Ungleichheit” Joint conference of the sections Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse‚ Medizin- und Gesundheitssoziologie (DGS) and the working group Medizinsoziologische Theorien (DGMS), Rostock, May 2015.
“Bias in Health Data” Autumn Conference of the Section Sociology of Medicine and Health of the German Sociological Association, October 2013, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

LANGUAGES

German (native), English, French (fluent), Dutch, Italian, Danish (intermediate), Spanish (basics)

TEACHING

International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS), Rostock
November 2019: Seminar „Socioeconomic Status and Health”
University of Rostock, Institute of Sociology and Demography
Winter 2019/20: Seminars and lecture series at the University of Rostock: “The social structure of Germany” “Sociology of education” “Sociology of the labour market”
Summer 2019: Four seminars at the University of Rostock on BA level: “Social Inequality and Health” “Pierre Bourdieu” “Poverty and Affluence” “Migration, social inequality and social cohesion”
Winter 2018/19: Seminars and lecture series at the University of Rostock: “The social structure of Germany” “Sociology of education” “Sociology of the labour market”
Summer 2018: Four seminars at the University of Rostock on BA and MA level: “Social Inequality and Health” “Pierre Bourdieu” “Poverty and Affluence” “Social Inequality in the life course”
Teaching at different European Institutes of higher education
Oct 2016: “Social-to-biological transitions and biomarkers” Seminar of the Interdisciplinary Health Research Group, Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS), Bamberg
Winter 2015/16: “Foundations of Comparative Sociology” Seminar for doctoral student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy
Oct 2012 and Oct 2011: Lecturer in the course: From epidemiology to health promotion - from description to determinants. National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHES), Rotterdam.
June 2011: The calculation tool from work package IV of the EURO-GBD-SE project. Invited seminar at the Scuola di Sanità Pubblica, Turin.
Dec 2010: Seminar on health impact assessment with the Population Attributable Fraction in Excel. Department for Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam.
International Max Planck Research School for Demography (IMPRSD)
Winter 2006/07 Seminar for doctoral students: Social differences in health and mortality
Winter 2003/04 Lecture in a lecture series for PhD students “New Directions in Mortality Research”
University of Rostock, Institute of Sociology and Demography
Winter 2007/08 Seminar: Methods for empirical social research
Research Seminar: Social differences in health and health behaviour II
Lecture: Demography for medical students
Summer 2007 Seminar: Survival Analysis (Master level)
Research Seminar: Social differences in health and health behaviour I
Winter 2006/07 Seminar: Methods for empirical social research
Research Seminar: Themes of Aging II
Summer 2006 Lecture series: Methods of multivariate analysis
Research Seminar: Themes of Aging I
Winter 2005/06 Two seminars on methods for empirical social research
Summer 2005 Two seminars on methods for empirical social research
Winter 2004/05 Two seminars on methods for empirical social research
Summer 2004 Seminar: Social structural analysis
Summer 2002 Seminar: “Narcissus in the supermarket” – Consumer society in the early 21st century

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

-Dimensionen sozialer Stratifizierung und ihr Zusammenhang mit Mortalität – ein Vergleich von Bildung, Berufsstatus und Einkommen. Conference of the section Medizin- und Gesundheitssoziologie of the German Sociological Association, March 2018, Munich.
-Mortality by different dimensions of stratification – a comparison of education, class and income with Finish register data. Workshop of the European Assoc.of Population Studies, Novosibirsk, July 2017.
-Social causation or health selection? Causal effects between socioeconomic status and health in the life course. Invited lecture in the lecture series of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Bremen, December 2016.
-Chair of the session Stigmatisierung als Thema in der Gesundheitsforschung of the section Medizin- und Gesundheitssoziologie in the German Sociological Association, Bamberg, September 2016.
-Mortality by different dimensions of stratification – a comparison of education, class, status and income with Finish register data. Forum of the International Assoc. of Sociology (ISA), Vienna, July 2016.
-Causal effects between socioeconomic status and health in a life course perspective. Keynote, Kick-off meeting of the project “Social Inequalities in Aging, Health, Care and Institutional Reforms in the Nordic Welfare Model”, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, December 2015.
-Cumulative advantage versus age-as-leveller hypothesis in health inequalities research – Avoiding statistical artefacts. Conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Tallinn, September 2015.
-Konzepte und Operationalisierung des sozioökonomischen Status für die Untersuchung sozialer Unterschiede in der Gesundheit. Conference of the German Sociological Association: Lebenslauf, Netzwerke und gesundheitliche Ungleichheit, Rostock, May 2015.
-Consequences of measurement error for causal inference in cross‐lagged panel design studies: The example of the reversed causal relationship between health and SES. International Conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Lausanne, October 2014.
-Ein explorativer Ansatz um Akkumulationseffekte und kritische Perioden im Lebensverlauf zu identifizieren. Congress of the German Sociological Association, Trier, October 2014.
-Health inequality in the EU: contributing factors and potential policies. Keynote, Conference on the effects of the economic crisis on public health, WHO International Training Center, Florence, November 2013.
-The AMIEHS-project. Avoidable Mortality in the European Union: towards better Indicators for the Effectiveness of Health Systems. Keynote, Meeting of OECD Health Data National Correspondents, Paris, November 2010.
-Chair of the session Modeling individual and social agents as objective/subjective ‘rational’ agents on the conference On Objective Knowledge in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Karl Popper and Beyond, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, March 2009.
-Gender Differences in Trajectories of Health Limitations in Germany between 1995 and 2001. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, April 2008 (travel grant from DFG).
-Demografischer Wandel: Eine neue Zukunft für das Alter. Keynote, Symposium Demografischer Wandel und die Zukunft der Gesellschaft, Schwerin, November 2007.
-Inégalités sociales devant la mort et en matière de santé aux Danemark et aux Etats-Unis. Colloque Populations d'ici et d'ailleurs, Regards croisés, University Nanterre (Paris), October 2007.
-Participant at the International Forum on the Social Science-Policy Nexus (UNESCO), Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 2006.
-Demography of Longevity. Keynote, Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie, Wiesbaden, September 2005.
-Socioeconomic Mortality Differentials in Old Age – Evidence from US Survey Data and Danish Register data. World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, July 2005.
-Does the socioeconomic mortality gradient interact with age? Evidence from US survey and Danish register data. International Population Conference, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Tours, Frankreich, July 2005 (travel grant from DFG).
-Decreasing influence of socio-economic status on mortality in old age? Conference of the European Sociological Association, Ageing societies, new sociology, Murcia, Spain, September 2003.