CV

Profile at the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology (Summa cum laude)
Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
04/2017–07/2021
M.Sc. Sociology and Empirical Social Research
University of Cologne
10/2014–02/2017
Minor: Statistics and Econometrics
B.A. Governance and Public Policy
University of Passau
10/2011–09/2014
Minor: Economic and Social Politics
Political Science and Social Research
Cardiff University
09/2013–01/2014
Erasmus Programme

Senior Researcher
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Research Group on Wealth and Social Inequality led by Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert
Since 04/2021
Research Associate
Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Research Group “Accumulation of Personal Wealth in Couples: Individual Resources and Gender Inequalities in Intimate Relationships (MyWealth)” led by Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch
08/2018–03/2021
Subproject: Attitudes towards personal wealth in intimate relationships
Research Associate
Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne
MyWealth project
04/2017–08/2018

Wealth Data Science Summer School
“How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? Using Wikidata to examine the world’s billionaires”
Constructor University, Bremen
07/2024
Research Colloquium “Comparative Stratification Research”
“Preservation of large fortunes over multiple generations in Germany”
LMU, Munich
06/2024
SER Café
Online discussion about research paper
Invited by the editorial board of Socio-Economic Review
06/2023
INEQ Research Seminar
“Implicit Gender Discrimination in Inheritance and Gift Taxation”
Research Institute Economics of Inequality, Wirtschaftsuniversität, Wien
06/2023
DIW Kolloquium
“The Gender (Tax) Gap in Parental Transfers. Evidence from administrative inheritance and gift tax data”
Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
06/2023
ifb-Forschungskolloquium
“Geschlechterunterschiede in der Vererbung und Verschenkung von Vermögen”
Staatsinstitut für Familienforschung an der Universität Bamberg
04/2023
Multidisciplinary Seminar Series
“Gender differences in parental wealth transfers”
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The Graduate Center/CUNY
12/2022
Kolloquium Soziologie der Sozialpolitik
“Preservation of large fortunes over multiple generations in Germany”
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
11/2022

ECSR Network Workshop on Wealth Inequalities, Gender, and Family Structures
University of Birmingham
06/2023
Reichtum: Soziologische und historische Perspektiven
MPIfG, Köln
03/2022
ECSR Network Workshop: Understanding Gender in Wealth Inequality
Online event
10/2020
Workshop “Inequality within Couples”
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10/2018

Fortgeschrittene Methoden (Vorlesung und Übung)
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
2024/2025
Navigating an Academic Project
MPIfG, Talk for PhD students and PostDocs
2024
M.Sc. Sociology: Wealth and Social Inequality
Universität zu Köln
2022/2023
Research Data Management
MPIfG, Course for PhD students and PostDocs
2022
M.Sc. Sociology: Analysis of Longitudinal Data (Exercise)
Universität zu Köln
2020
M.Sc. Sociology: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Data (Exercise)
Universität zu Köln
2020/2021
M.Sc. Sociology: Analysis of Longitudinal Data (Exercise)
Universität zu Köln
2019
M.Sc. Sociology: Analysis of Cross-Sectional Data (Exercise)
Universität zu Köln
2019/2020
B.A. Staatswissenschaften: Statistik für Sozialwissenschaften (Exercise)
Universität Passau
2014

Spring School on Perceptions of Wealth (Inequality)
University of Bamberg
Organizer
03/2025
Wealth Data Science Summer School
Constructor University, Bremen
Project Leader and Lecturer
07/2024