Academic Career             

since November 2024 
Associate Professor for Social Theory and Cultural Sociology
Department for Sociology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp

Jan 2016 - Nov 2024 Senior Researcher 
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne

April 2024   Habilitation
University of Hamburg, Hamburg

April 2024 - Sept 2024 Visiting Professor
Lehrstuhl für Organisationssoziologie, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wupperal

Jan 2023 - April 2023   Visiting Fellow
AxPo Observatory of market society polarization, Sciences Po, Paris

Aug – Sept  2022  Visiting Fellow  
European Institute, London School of Economics, London

Jan – March 2020   Visiting Fellow
European Institute, London School of Economics, London

2014 – 2016 PostDoc 
Chair for Sociological Theory, Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg

2010 – 2014  PhD 
DFG-Graduate School Markets and Societies in Europe, Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg

2003 – 2008   Studies of European Economics and Business Administration 
Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg

Memberships and Professional Work

since 2023          Spokesperson of the Board of the German Section for Economic Sociology

since 2021          Member of the Board of the German Section for Economic Sociology

since 2021          Member of the German Section for Sociological Theory 

since 2015          Member of DFG-Network „Political Sociology of Transnational Fields“  

since 2012          Member of DGS (Germany sociological association) and its Section for Economic Sociology

since 2011           Member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

2019-2022          Spokesperson of Scientific Staff at MPIfG, Member of the Human Sciences Section of Max Planck Society

2017-2018          Methods Coordinator at MPIfG

2016-2020          Chair of the Professional Developmet Commitee at MPIfG 

2016-2020          Book Review Editor Economic Sociology - the European Electronic Newsletter

2012-2015         associated Member of Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS)

Awards and Scholarships 

2024                    ERC Starting Grant
                            Project: REIMAGINE. Understanding the Role of Economic Imagination for Advancing Decarbonization in Europe

2023                    Article of the Year Award, The Sociological Review, 2021

2022                    Invited Research Stay in the context of the program
                            „Gemeinsam Forschen im Jubiläumsjahr“, University Paderborn

2020                    Essay Price of Hertie-Foundation „Democracy and Economy” (third place)

2017                    Dissertation Award  Universität Bamberg, awarded by Soroptimist Club Bamberg

2013 – 2015        Step-by-Step Fellowship by Universität Bamberg

2012 – 2014        Fellow of female Research Network (feRNet)                             

2010 – 2013        Scholarship according to the Bavarian Elite Support Act (BayEFG)