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Curriculum Vitae

Professional Development

April 2011 Substitute, Chair of Political, Administrative and Organizational Science, University of Potsdam
March 2011 Visiting Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Milan, Italy
April 2008 Visiting Fellow, University of Bath, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Bath, U.K.
June 2007 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.), Theme: Innovation and Continuity: The Organizational Reform of Public Social Insurances“ ("Innovation und Kontinuität: Die Organisationsreform in der GRV")
Examiners: Professors Frank Nullmeier, University of Bremen, and. Marian Döhler, Open University Hagen, Germany
January 2007 - March 2011 Editor, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform (the German equivalent of the Journal of Social Policy)
June 2004 - March 2011 Researcher at the Centre for Social Policy Research, Department Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State, University of Bremen, and pursuit of several research projects:
  • The Future of Social Self-Government (of the Social Partners in Social Security)
    (funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung)
  • History and Modernization of Elections in the Field of Social Self-Government (of the Social Partners in Social Security
    Expertise for the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, supplied by an expert group made up of Dr. Bernard Braun (Bremen), Dr. Tanja Klenk (Bremen), Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth (Halle), Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier (Bremen), and Prof. Dr. Felix Welti (Neubrandenburg).
  • Governance in German Self-administration-units: New Forms of Direction, Control and Citizen Involvement
    (funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)
  • Public Governance as a Strategy of Reform
    (funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)
July 2001 - May 2004 Management Consultant with the ISA Consult GmbH Consulting firm for innovation, structural policy and employment issues, with an emphasis on the modernization of the public sector (contract management, quality management, work time management)

Academic Education

1994 - 2001 Studying Sociology, Political Science, History and Philosophy, University of Hamburg
Major in Sociology with emphases on: Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work and Organizational Sociology.
Degree: Diploma in Sociology; thesis on: Local Affirmative Action Politics in the Modernization of Administration ("Kommunale Gleichstellungspolitik im Verwaltungsmodernisierungsprozess")