Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
- since 2022 Professor PD at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
- Habilitation at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in educational sciences with a focus on social work
- PhD in Sociology from the University of Basel (Switzerland)
- Graduated as a social worker/social educator from the Catholic School of Social Work in Saarbrücken (Germany), Magister Artium in Sociology from the University of Trier (Germany) and Master of Arts in Politics from the London Guildhall University (United Kingdom).
- Professional activities outside the university in migration social work, open and stationary youth welfare, as well as in adult education/continuing education.
- Member of the Management Board of the integration company Öko-Service GmbH in Zurich.
- Ongoing continuing education in the fields of work integration and disability management, as well as migration and migration social work.
Main focus
Fourfold performance mandate in teaching/research & development/continuing education/services address the topics of work integration and integration management/disability management as well as work, mobility and migration.
Further information
Memberships, review & commission activities
- Swiss Society for Social Work (SGSA) - co-founder and member of the coordination committee of the commission “Social Work and Migration”)
- German Society for Education Sciences (DGfE) - active member in the sections “Social Pedagogy” and “International and Intercultural Comparative Education”
- Institute for Regional and Migration Research (IRM)
- International Forum for Disability Management Researchers Network (IFDMRN)
- Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on Employment and Training (GLADNET)
- European Sociological Association (ESA) - active member of the researchers’ network 35 “Migration”
- Swiss Society for Sociology (SGS)
- Council for Migration (RfM) (Germany)