Vita

Please note that some of the lists below are only extracts. A full CV (which might need some updating) can be accessed from here (PDF).

Academic positions

• since 02/2015: Professor of Political Sociology, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen (overview in English)

  • since 01/2020: Fachbereichssprecher (head of department)
  • since 09/2019: Akademischer Programmleiter (head of programme), Sociology, Politics & and Economics programme
  • since 05/2019: Sprecher (head/representative), Research Cluster Computational Social Science
  • since 02/2016: Member of the Academic Senate
• 09/2012-01/2015: Akademischer Rat (tenured senior lecturer), University of Constance
• 09/2009-08/2012: DAAD-Fachlektor (lecturer, co-funded by the German Academic Exchange Service), Departent of Government, University of Essex
• 04/2004-08/2009: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (postdoc/lecturer/assistant professor, no tenure-track), Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
• 10/2000-03/2004: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (lecturer/teaching fellow/researcher), Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
• 01/1998-09/2000: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Mannheim Centre of European Social Research, University of Mannheim

Education

• 12/2013: Habititation, University of Constance, Venia Legendi in Political Science
• 03/2004: Dr.rer.soc. (PhD in Social Sciences), University of Mannheim
• 03/1996: M.A. Political Science (major), Philosophy (minor), and History (minor), University of Hamburg

Service to the profession

• From 05/2019: Sprecher (co-head/representative), Section on Political Sociology, DVPW (German Political Science Association)
• From 05/2018: Sprecher (co-head/representative), AK “Wahlen und politische Einstellungen” (specialist group on political behaviour), DVPW (German Political Science Association)
• 2017-2018: Member of the programme committee for the DAGStat conference (19-22 March 2019, LMU Munich)
• 2007-2019: Member of the Präsidium (steering committee), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung (DGfW)
• From 05/2018: Member of the editorial board of Politics and Governance
• 2016-2022: Member of the editorial board of Electoral Studies
• From 01/2023: Member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Political Science as Review Editor for methods and measurement
• Reviewer for many academic journals, including the American Political Science Review (4 times since 2014), the British Journal of Political Science (10 times since 2008), Electoral Studies (10 times since 2008), the European Journal of Political Research (7 times since 2009), Party Politcs (7 times since 2008), West European Politics (7 times since 2012)

Additional teaching appointments

• since 2006: Instructor, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Collection and Analysis (Various courses on programming, data analysis, and graphics in R)
• since 2005: Instructor of (usually one-time) courses on programming, data analysis, and graphics in R at University of Zurich (2020), University of Innsbruck (2020), University of Mannheim (2008-12), University of Trier (2008), University of Berne (2006)
• 2009-2017: course “Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists”, GESIS-Leibniz-Institut for the Social Sciences