Research Interests

  • Sociology of professions
  • Medical Sociology
  • Cultural Sociology

Memberships and other activities

  • Member of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
  • Section for Sociology of Professions of the DGS (member of the executive committee since November 2015)
  • Mentor for dissertations at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technical University of Munich
  • Mentor in Ment 15 – mentoring program for female students and doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Social Sciences of LMU Munich
  • Member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of LMU Munich (since August 2019)
    Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences at LMU Munich (September 2019 - September 2021)

Grants and awards

  • LMU-Mentoring 2021
  • LMU-Mentoring 2020
  • LMU-Mentoring 2019
  • Dissertation Award of the German Sociological Association 2016
  • Mentoring@LMUexcellent 2016
  • Mentoring@LMUexcellent 2015
  • Mentoring@LMUexcellent 2014

Vita

WiSe 22/23:
Acting Professor of the Chair of Theory Formation and Social Cohesion at the Department of Sociology, University of Münster
since April 2015:
Lecturer (Akademische Rätin a. Z.) at the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi
January 2015:
Doctorate (Dr. phil.), dissertation title: „Professionelles Erwartungsmanagement. Zur soziologischen Bedeutung des Arzt-Narrativs.“ (awarded the 2016 Dissertation Prize by the German Sociological Association)
since October 2011:
Academic staff at the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi
April 2010 - March 2012:
Adjunct lecturer at the Catholic Theology Faculty of LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Konrad Hilpert
March 2009 - September 2011:
Academic staff in the research group “Religion in Bioethical Discourses” at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Friedrich-Wilhelm Graf
October 2008 - August 2011:
Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi
December 2007 - August 2008:
Academic staff at the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi
2007:
Diploma in Sociology, thesis topic: “The Ethics of Ethics Committees”
2004-2007:
Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology at LMU Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi, and in the DFG project “Ethics and Organization”
2001-2007:
Study of sociology, psychology, and education at LMU Munich
1999-2001:
Vocational training in advertising
1999:
High school diploma from Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Garching