About Me

My research areas are sociology and gender studies with a focus on gender relations, queer theory and diversity. The analysis of inequalities and discrimination in everyday life, on the labor market, in organizations and in science and medicine is central to my research. This research approach combines critical perspectives on normativity and everyday experiences with the analyses of social structures and processes.

I am currently researching and teaching at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin.

Academic Career

2023 – present: Postdoc position, project Attitudes toward Diversity, Objectivity and Meritocracy in Science (ADOMiS): Multiple Barriers to Academic Excellence, PI: Prof. Dr. Mirjam Fischer, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

2022 – 2023: Head of functional unit Sociology of Gender, Department of Sociology, Potsdam University

2021 – 2024: Research associate, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of MINToring project, MINToring Evaluation, Team Zentrale Frauenbeauftragte, Free University Berlin

2018 – 2021: Research associate (project lead, project management, funding acquisition), SowiTra – Institute for Social Science Transfer a Berlin

2015: Research associate, quantitative employee survey on job satisfaction, work-life balance and gender equality, project, SowiTra – Institute for Social Science Transfer, Berlin

2013 – 2014: Research associate, project MäHR, Girls’ Images – Craft roles: Images and Gender-Equitable Job Promotion in Rural Areas, SowiTra – Institute for Social Science Transfer, Berlin

2008 – 2013: Student assistant, Chair of Sociology of Gender Relations and the Chair for General Sociology at University Potsdam; student assistant, project Use of Parental Allowance by Fathers – Long-Term Effects for Company and Partnership, SowiTra – Institute for Social Science Transfer, Berlin

University Education

2015 – 2022: PhD in social science at University of Cologne (Dr. phil.) Agency in Queer Spaces in Berlin; supervisor: Prof Dr Susanne Voelker (Uni Cologne) and Prof Dr Hanna Meißner (Technical University Berlin), sociological study with ethnological methods

2013: Magistra Artrium in media studies and sociology at Humboldt-University Berlin and University Potsdam

2009 – 2012: Certificate interdisciplinary gender studies at University Potsdam

2010 – 2011: BA gender studies and social theory, University of Melbourne, Australia