Academic Career

Since Feburar 2018
Research & Teaching at the Department of Sociological Theory and Macrosociology
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

April 2015 - January 2018
Research Fellow, Project funded by the German Research Foundation: „Inequality, Status Anxiety, and Quality of Life. An Examination and Extension of the Spirit-Level Theory for Europe“, Institute for Social Science, Department of Sociological Theory and Macrosociology
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

July 2013 - March 2015 
Student Assistant with DIALOGIK, non-profit institute for communication and cooperation research
Stuttgart, Germany

March - May 2013 
Internship with PARI, Public Affairs Research Institute 
Johannesburg, South Africa

September 2012 - February 2013 & October - December 2013
Student Assistant with ESS, European Social Survey
University Stuttgart, Germany

October 2011 - March 2015
Masters in Empirical Political and Social Research (Master of Arts)
University Stuttgart, Germany

October 2008 - September 2011
Bachelor in Integrated Social Sciences (Bachelor of Arts)
Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig

2019: Better Safe than Sorry. Does Agency Moderate the Relevance of Safety Perceptions for the Subjective Well-Being of Young Children? 
In: Child Indicators Research, 12(1), 29-48. 
DOI: 10.1007/s12187-017-9519-y
(Journal Article, peer-reviewed)

2018: Better for Everyone? Egalitarian Culture and Social Wellbeing in Europe (with Jan Delhey)
In: Social Indicators Research, online first.
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-018-2007-z
(Journal Article, peer-reviewed)

2017: Trusting and controlling? Political trust, information and acceptance of surveillance policies: The case of Germany (with Eva-Maria Trüdinger) 
In: Government Information Quarterly, online first.
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2017.07.003
(Journal Article, peer-reviewed)

2017: Sociocultural inequalities and status anxiety. Redirecting the Spirit Level Theory (withJan Delhey and Christian Schneickert) 
In: Intl Journal of Comparative Sociology 58 (3), S. 215240. 
DOI: 10.1177/0020715217713799
(Journal Article, peer-reviewed)

2016: The good life, affluence, and self-reported happiness - introducing the good life index and debunking two popular myths (with Jan Delhey)
In: World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, Bd. 88.2016, S. 50-66. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.07.007
(Journal Article, peer-reviewed)

2016: Ernährung, Lebensmittel und Forschung 2020 (with Ludger Benighaus, Christina Benighaus, Lisa Kastl and Christian Hofmaier)
In: Benighaus, Christina; Wachinger, Gisela; Renn, Ortwin (Eds.): Bürgerbeteiligung. Konzepte und Lösungswege für die Praxis. Frankfurt a.M.: Wolfgang Metzner Verlag, 152-162.
(Book chapter)

Winter Semester 2012/2013
Multivariate Modeling. MA Tutorial for the Lecture "Research and Evaluation Methodology, Statistical Modeling I" (Prof. Dr.  Dieter Urban/ Dr. Jochen Mayerl) Institute for Social Science at Stuttgart University.

Summer Semester 2012
BA Tutorial for the Political Research Seminar „Morality Policies and Politics“ (Dr. Achim Hildebrandt), Institute for Social Science at Stuttgart University.

Winter Semester 2009/2010
BA Tutorial for the Seminars "The Classics and Basic Concepts of Sociology" and ,,Theodor Geiger's Influence on Modern Sociology", Institute for Integrated Social Science at TU Braunschweig.