2014-: Professor (Sociology, in particular Social Research Methods), University of Hamburg
2011-2014: Professor (Social Research Methods and Social Structure Analysis), University of Osnabrück
2011-2014: Research Professor, German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), DIW Berlin
2011-: Member of the Collaborative Research Centre 882 "From Heterogeneities to Inequalities", University of Bielefeld
2011: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
2008-2011: Research Associate at the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin
2007: Dr. rer. pol. at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
2003-2007: Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair for Empirical Social and Economic Research, University at Cologne
2001-2003: Project manager, forsa – Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung und statistische Analysen mbH, Berlin
1999-2001: Research assistant, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), University of Mannheim
1998: Diploma in Sociology, University of Bielefeld