• since 05/2025
  Professor for the Sociology of Rural Areas at University of Rostock, Faculty of Agriculture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (joint appointment with Thünen Institute)
   
• since 04/2010
  Senior researcher at Thünen Institute of Rural Studies
   
• 05/1999-04/2010
  PhD student and postdoctoral fellow at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
   
• 12/2002
  Doctoral defence at Technical University Chemnitz
   
• 06/1998-04/1999
  Research assistant at the Research Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO), Leipzig
   
• 12/1997
  Magistra Artium (M.A.) in Sociology, Czech and Slovak Studies, East and South East European Studies at Leipzig University

• Co-lead of the Working Group “Small-town housing: real estate markets, segregation patterns and housing practices” at the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development of the Leibniz Association (since 2025)
   
• Appointed member of the German Small-Town Academy (since 2025)
   
• Elected member of the German Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) (since 2018)
   
• Elected member of the executive committee of the German Rural Sociology Group (DGS) (since 2016)
   
• Elected member of the executive committee of the German Rural Geography Group (since 2013)
   
• Appointed member of the Advisory board of the scientific journal "European Countryside" (since 2014)
   
• Co-editor of the book series "Rural areas: Issues of local and regional development" (LIT, Berlin/Münster/London/Wien/Zürich) (since 2016)

• since 2024: responsible for the module Rural Sociology at University of Rostock
   
• 2011-2018: Courses in Rural and Community sociology, Socio-ecological studies and Sociology of public and private services at Technical University Braunschweig
   
• 2003-2008: Courses in Urban studies, Housing sociology, Sociology of demographic change and Neighbourhood geography at University of Leipzig

Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier (ORCID) Number:

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7387-9114 

University of Rostock

• https://www.auf.uni-rostock.de/en/professorships/construction-and-environmental-area/sociology-of-rural-areas/

ARL Working Group “Small-town housing” 

• https://www.arl-net.de/en/projekte/housing-small-towns