Degrees: Diploma in Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, 1986; Diploma in Economics, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, 1988; PhD in Political Science, Social Science Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilian University, 1990; Habilitation in Sociology, University of Bern, 1997.
Current Position: Director of the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam) and as of August 2011, Professor for Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich.
Past Positions: Research assistent, Insitute of Sociology, Munich, 1987-1990; Visiting assistent professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1991; Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, 1991-1992; Research associate, Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilian University, 1992-1998; Professor for Statistics and Sociological Methodology, University of Mannheim, 1998-2011.
Main Areas of Research: Methodology of social research, especially panel methodology, family research, organizational sociology.
Other positions: Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) Wassenaar, 2001-2002; Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Delmenhorst, 2006-2007; Dean of the Sociological Faculty, University of Mannheim, 2005-2009.
