Main Focus
- Economic sociology and political sociology
- Social theory
- Capitalism
- Discourse and ideas
- Power relations and institutions
- Temporality and future orientations
- Dynamics and crisis
Curriculum Vitae
2024
Interim Professor, Organizational Sociology, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
seit 2023
Speaker of the Economic Sociology Department of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
2023
Visiting Researcher, AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization, Sciences Po, Paris
2022, 2020
Visiting Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
since 2021
Member of the Board, Section for Economic Sociology, German Sociological Association (DGS)
Representative of the researchers at the MPIfG in the Human Sciences Section of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society
2016-2020
Chair of the Professional Developmet Commitee at MPIfG
2016-2020
Book Review Editor Economic Sociology - the European Electronic Newsletter
since 2016
Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
2015
Doctorate in sociology, University of Bamberg; thesis on the dynamics of ecological markets based on a field study of the market for organic dairy products
2014-2016
Research Fellow, Department for Sociology II (Sociological Theory), University of Bamberg
2012-2015
Associate Fellow, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS)
2010-2012
Fellow, DFG graduate program "Markets and Social Systems in Europe," University of Bamberg
2005-2006
Year abroad with Erasmus Program, École Supérieure de Commerce, Montpellier, France
2003-2008
Diplom (MA equivalent), European Economics and Business Administration, University of Bamberg
Awards and honors (selected)
2021
Article of the Year, The Sociological Review
2020
Essay Price of Hertie-Foundation „Democracy and Economy” (third place)
2017
Dissertation Award from the Soroptimist Club of the University of Bamberg