Research for the Environment

Senior Researcher in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology (granted tenure in 2009), since June 2008 deputy head of the department.

From April to September 2012 interim professor of Economic and Environmental Sociology at Martin Luther University of Halle

Habilitation in Sociology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ("Umhabilitierung" from Bielefeld University)

Co-Director of the "Real World Experiments Project," Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University

Guest Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Sociology and the Environmental Studies Program, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Guest Lecturer, Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Post Doctoral Fellow (German Research Foundation, DFG), Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University

DAAD Doctoral Fellow, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Doctoral Fellow in the German Research Foundation's (DFG) Graduate School "Genese, Strukturen und Folgen von Wissenschaft und Technik," Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University

Scientific Assistant at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University

Internship at the Center for Applied Social Analysis and Education (CASAE), Arcata, California, USA

Volunteer work in environmental conservation and restoration projects, Involvement Volunteers Ass. Inc., Victoria, Australia

Dr. rer. soc. (~ Ph.D.) Sociology, Bielefeld University

Diplom (~ M.A.), Sociology, Bielefeld University ("With Distinction")

Graduate Student. Department of Sociology, Humboldt State University, California, USA

Vordiplom (~ B.A., but more focussed), Sociology major; psychology minor, Bielefeld University

University of Bonn, M.A. program in philosophy with minors in psychology and archaeology

Elected Chair, Environment & Society Research Network (RN12), Board member since 2009European Sociological Association (ESA)

Chair of the section "Environmental Sociology" in the German Sociological Association (DGS)

Co-founder and Editor of the journal Nature + Culture

Treasurer and board member of the Research Committee on "Environment and Society" (RC 24) of the International Sociological Association (ISA)

Formation of a group for Junior Scholars in Environmental Sociology (Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie) together with Harald Heinrichs