Profile
Key Positions and Responsibilities
- Research professor (Chair) for the Sociology of Work at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main since 2011
- Co-Director for the interdisciplinary Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO) since 2011
- First-ever Vice-Rector for Human Resources Management and Development and first woman in Rectorate of RWTH Aachen University, 2008 – 2011
- Professor for Sociology with the specialty of Gender and Life Course Research at RWTH Aachen, 2007-2011
- Deputy director of the GLOBALIFE project at the University of Bamberg, 2003-2006, a 2006 EU Descartes Prize finalist
- Postdoc researcher at Cornell Gerontology Research Institute, University of Bielefeld (C1), and University of Bamberg (C1) between 2002-2007
Boards and University Service
- Board of Trustees for the Technical University of Munich since 2018
- Board of Trustees for the TUM Institute for Advanced Studies, 2011 – 2023
- Board of Trustees for the University of Bamberg, 2011 – 2019
- Dean of Studies for 6000 students and 12 courses of study at the School of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2018 – 2021
- Chair of the Board of Examiners, Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2016 – 2018
- Chair of the Department of Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2013 – 2015
Visiting and Guest Professorships and Fellowships
- Erasmus Exchange Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, 2022
- Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, Cornell University, 2014-15
Education and Training
- CTI Co-Active™ coach, trained in Oslo and London, 2018
- Graduate of University Leadership Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Institute for Educational Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009
- Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University, 2002
- Masters in Sociology from Cornell University, 1999
- Bachelors in Sociology from Rice University, 1995
Additionally
- Responsible for the Introduction to Sociology course at Goethe University, Frankfurt for 800+ students annually since 2012
- Three decades studying work, family, gender, and life courses with an international comparative perspective.
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