Curriculum vitae

Research interests

Trends of social inequalities

Social inequality and health

Social capital and health

Personal

Marital status:
Single

Nationality:
German

Date of birth:
01.07.1980

Place of birth:
Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony (Germany)

Affiliations

  • German Sociological Society (DGS)
    Section Sociology of Medicine and Health
  • German Society for medical Sociology (DGMS)
    Section Social Epidemiology
    Section Children and adolescents

Academic Preparation

  • 2001 to 2006
    Diploma in Sociology at the Free University Berlin (“Diplom-Soziologe”)
    Specialisation: Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis, Health Sociology
    Graduation February 2006, Thesis: Social Capital, Poverty and Health

Teaching

  • Winter term 2003/4 to sommer term 2005
    Student teacher for univariate and multivsriate statistics
    Institute of Sociology, Free University Berlin
  • Winter term 2005/6
    Seminar “Introduction to comparative data analyses”

Professional Experience

  • 10-2003 to 2-2006
  • Student Teacher at the Free University of Berlin
  • 7-2004 to 10-2004
    Hands-on training at the Robert Koch-Institute
  • 11-2004 to 10-2006
    Visiting fellow at the Robert Koch-Institute
  • 2-2005 to 4-2005
    Student assistant at Robert Koch-Institute for Research on “Poverty and Health”
  • 2-2005 to 5-2005
    Student assistant of Prof. Dr. Jens Alber,
    Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
  • 3-2006 to 3-2009
    PhD scholarship Robert Koch-Institute
    Thesis “Trends of health inequalities in Germany from 1984 to 2006″
  • 4-2009 to today
     Researcher at the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin
    Department of Epidemiology and Health Reporting

Software

  • Statistics
    • Stata
    • SPSS for Windows
    • SPSS Answer Tree
  • DTP
    • LaTeX
    • LyX
    • BibTex
    • Endnote
    • JabRef
  • Other
    • MS Office (97,2000,XP,2003)
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Adobe Dreamweaver
    • Linux (Ubuntu, Knoppix, Fedora Core)