Career
1985: Diploma in education, University of Marburg
1994: Doctorate University of Halle/Wittenberg. Topic: "Individualization and pluralization in the life course".
2000: Habilitation, Venia legendi: Educational science with a focus on general education
2002: Substitute professorships: General Pedagogy and Early Childhood Education (C4) and Early Childhood Education (C3) at the University of Koblenz-Landau
2003-2005: Visiting professor at the University of Vienna
2004: C4-Professorship for Educational Science with focus on the pedagogy of adolescence at the Institute of Educational Science (FB 03) at the University of Gießen
since 2011: Professor of Educational Science at the University of Cologne, Faculty of Human Sciences
Focal points in teaching and research
Family, youth and generation research, research on education and learning, research on optimisation and well-being, research on violence and sociality, qualitative educational research, methods of qualitative educational research
Board activities
2018-2020: Chairwoman of the Family Research Network
2008-2012: Board member of the Commission "Qualitative Education and Biography Research", Section 2, General Educational Science of the German Society for Education (DGfE)
2004-2009: Chairperson of the Board of the General Educational Science Section of the DGfE, re-elected in 2006
2004-2008: Chairperson of the Commission "Educational Biographical Research", Section 2 in the DGfE, re-elected in 2006
2003-2009: Board member of the Working Group for Historical Genealogy, Section 1 in the DGfE
2002-2004: Vice-Chairwoman of the Commission for Biographical Research, Section 2 in the DGfE
2000: Board member of the Commission "Educational Science Biography Research", Section 2 in the DGfE
Collaboration/leadership: committees and commissions
since 2015: Responsible for the Master's degree in Educational Sciences at the University of Cologne
since 2015: Course Director for the module Education and Socialisation, Master in Educational Sciences at the University of Cologne
since 2013: Teaching: Module responsible for the BA and MA in Educational Sciences Teaching, University of Cologne, Module Education, Development and Socialisation in Adolescence