(Stand: 10 / 2016)
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| Work Experiences | |
| 9/2016 - ongoing | Research Professorship University College of Teacher Education Vienna / Krems (KPH) |
| 7/2013 – 2/2016 | Head of Social Sciences and Statistics (3S) Research Department of KAICIID – International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (Vienna / Austria) |
| 9/2012 – 6/2013 | Visiting Professor (Professeur Suppléant) Religious Studies Chair, Prof. Dr. Krüger (University of Fribourg / Switzerland) |
| 4/2004 – 7/2012 | Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistant) Religious Studies-Chair II, Prof. Dr. Bochinger (Bayreuth University / Germany) |
| 9/2009 – 12/2011 | Scholarship for Post-Doctoral Studies (German Research Foundation / DFG) - Visiting Fellow: Observatoire des Religions en Suisse / ORS (Lausanne / Switzerland) - Visiting Fellow: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs (Washington, DC / USA) |
| 1/2000 – 3/2004 | Director of the Kontakt- und Informationsbüros für präventive Kinder- und Jugendarbeit /KiB Protestant Christophorus Parish (Zwickau-Eckersbach / Germany) |
| 1998 – 1994 | Internships / Placements - Office of the local Integration-Officer (Ulm) - six months - Office of the federal Integration-Officer (Bonn) – two months - Information Network Focus On Religious Movements (London) – six weeks - Central Protestant Information Office on New Religious Movements (Stuttgart) – six weeks |
| Academic Career | |
| 4/2014 | Granting of Post-doctoral / Habilitation in Religious Studies: ‘Stepping onto the Stage of International Relations, - Religious NGOs in the Context of the UN’ (Academic Mentors: Prof. Dr. C. Bochinger, Prof. Dr. B. Schnettler, Prof. Dr. G. Kehrer) Bayreuth University |
| 6/2001 | Granting of PhD in Sociology (magna cum laude): ‘Vereine als Medium der Integration, - Entwicklung und Strukturwandel von Migrantenvereinen’ (Associations as a Medium of Integration)’ (Academic Supervisors: Prof. Dr. C. Seyfarth, Prof. Dr. G. Kehrer) Tübingen University |
| 12/1995 | Granting of M.A in Religious Studies (distinction): On the public dimension if a Controversy around the London Church od Christ / LCC (Academic supervisors: L. Woodhead, PhD and Prof. D. Martin, PhD) Lancaster University |
| Academic Memberships | |
| Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft / DVRW - DVRW – Working Group ‘Methods and Theory’ - DVRW – Working Group ‘Religion and Politics (in formation) | |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie / DGS - DGS – Section ‚Sociology of Religion’ - DGS – Section ‚Migration and Ethnic Minorities | |
| Berufsverband Deutscher Soziologen / BDS | |
| International Society for the Sociology of Religion / ISSR | |
| American Academy of Religion / AAR | |
| Editorial Work | |
| 2008 – 2010 | Bayreuther Beiträge zur religiösen Gegenwartskultur / BBrG (web-Journal for the Study of the present-day religious scene) |
| 1993 – 1995 | LiLiT – Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religions) |