CV
- 26.06.2012
- Dr. phil. “Friendship Types: The Construction of the Friendship Role and its Consequences on Social Support Networks. Analysis of older people’s relationship systems” (summa cum laude)
- 8.2006
- Magistra Artium’s degree, master thesis on “Technic concepts of the elderly.
Statistical data analysis and critical method discussion of an interview study” - 2000 to 2006
- Studies of Communication Science, Sociology and Psychology at RWTH Aachen University,
major fields of study: gerontology (sociology and linguistics), social network analysis, methods - 2000
- University-entrance diploma, Städtisches Gymnasium Thomaeum, Kempen
- 11.2014 – 4.2015
- Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), School of Health and Human Sciences, Gerontology Program. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service
- Since 10.2012
- Research Assistant, Department of Gerontology, Specialty in Empirical Gerontology and Research Methods, University of Vechta (Prof. Dr. Harald Künemund)
- 4.2012 – 8.2012
- Teaching assignment, Department of Sociology, Specialty in Gender and Life Course Research, RWTH Aachen University (Dr. Petra Lucht)
- 4.2009 – 3.2012
- Research Assistant, Human Technology Centre (HumTec)
project City 2020+, RWTH Aachen University - 11.2009 – 8.2012
- Research Assistant, project AC-TEC, RWTH Aachen University
- 1.2008 – 3.2009
- Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Specialty in Gender and Life Course Research, RWTH Aachen University (Prof. Heather Hofmeister, Ph.D.)
- 9.2007 – 12.2007
- Graduate Assistant, project “rebequa”,
Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics at RWTH Aachen University - 01.2007 – 08.2007
- Doctoral student, Department of Sociology, application for postgraduate scholarship of RWTH Aachen University (approval in September 2007, not accepted) and of Cusanuswerk (approval in October 2007, not accepted)
- 9.2006 – 12.2006
- Internship Goethe-Institut Toulouse, France, Language Department
- 2.2004 – 9.2004
- Internship, Online Market Research Institute EarsAndEyes GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
- 8.2002 – 2.2004
- Student Assistant, Department of Sociology, Specialty in Methods of Empirical Social Research at RWTH Aachen University, Prof. Dr. Paul B. Hill