I am a social economist, primarily a sociologist but equally influenced by economics. In my research I focus in terms of methods especially on survey methodology and causal inference and in terms of substantive research on education and higher education research, labor market research, but also health sociology.

Currently I am working as pa postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBI). At the LIfBi I am part of the working unit Returns to Education and Post-School Education in Department 2 - Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education. Here I work on various research projects as well as on the post school phase of starting cohort 8 in the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

Before I have been working at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) and the Leibniz University Hanover (LUH)

I took my bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from 2010 to 2013 and a master’s degree (M.Sc.) from 2013 to 2016 in Social Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2016 to 2021, I did my PhD at Leibniz University Hanover.