Academic and Professional Career

since 04/2026          Managing Director of the Institute of Educational Science at Ruhr
                                University Bochum

05/2025–03/2026    Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Educational Science
                                at Ruhr University Bochum

since 04/2023          Full Professor of Sociology of Education and Socialisation
                                Research at Ruhr University Bochum

01/2023                   Habilitation in Educational Science at the University of Cologne

                                Title: New Immigration and Schooling. Towards a
                                Transnationalisation of Educational Migration Research to
                                Reduce the Unequal Valuation of Mobilities in the German
                                School System

04/2022–09/2022    Interim Professor of Educational Science at the University of
                                Cologne

04/2020–03/2022    Akademische Rätin at the Institute of Educational and Social
                                Sciences at the University of Cologne; Lecturer at Goethe
                                University Frankfurt

10/2019–03/2020    Interim Professor with a focus on Education and Migration at
                                Goethe University Frankfurt

04/2018–09/2019    Akademische Rätin at the Institute of Educational and Social
                                Sciences at the University of Cologne

10/2017–03/2018    Interim Professor with a focus on Sociology of Education and
                                Socialisation Research at Ruhr University Bochum

10/2015–09/2017    Interim Professor in the Department of Intercultural Educational
                                Research at the University of Cologne

10/2014–09/2015    Visiting Professor with a focus on Intercultural Education at
                                Justus Liebig University Giessen

04/2012–09/2014    Research Associate / Akademische Rätin at the Institute of
                                Educational and Social Sciences and member of the
                                management board of the ZMI – Center for Multilingualism and
                                Integration Cologne at the University of Cologne

05/2013                   Doctorate in Educational Science at the University of Cologne

                                Title: On the Relationship between Body and Sociality in the
                                Context of Migration – A Qualitative Study on Bodily Self-
                                Presentations of Young Women in Text and Image

04/2008–03/2012    Research Associate at the Internship Centre of the Faculty of
                                Human Sciences at the University of Cologne

01/2007–03/2008    Student Research Assistant at the Institute of Educational and
                                Social Sciences at the University of Cologne

04/2002–06/2007    Studies in Educational Science with minor subjects in Sociology
                                and Psychology at the University of Cologne