About

I am a sociologist at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg and a doctoral student at Goethe University Frankfurt supervised by Prof. Dr. Birgit Becker and Prof. Dr. Jan Skopek of Trinity College Dublin, where I also completed a three-month research stay.

My research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of social inequalities, with a particular interest in how the earliest stages of life shape later opportunities. I approach this process from a multidimensional perspective, considering individual factors such as competence and personality development, family-level processes such as parenting, parental resources and parental decisions and macro-structural factors such as educational systems and institutional contexts. My work draws primarily on sociology, psychology and economics, while also engaging with demographic and developmental perspectives.

During my PhD, my research has focused on individual and family processes in the context of competence development and migration. I am currently extending this research strand by examining how macro-structural conditions relate to parents’ child-rearing decisions.

Alongside my research, I work in the Newborn Cohort of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), an innovative large-scale longitudinal study with an exceptionally broad range of competence measures starting at the age of seven months.

For more details on my academic background, see my full CV.