2021- present Assistant Professor (tenure), Department of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), Utrecht University

2018-2021 Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of Groningen

2015-2018 Post-Doc, Chair of Micro Sociology (Professor Claudia Diehl), University of Konstanz; NORFACE Project “Migrants’ Welfare State Attitudes” (MIFARE)

2015 PhD in Sociology, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin; PhD Thesis: Over-education of Immigrants in Germany (Magna cum laude) 

2009-2011 Master of Science in Sociology and Social Research, Graduate School of Social and Behavioral Science, Utrecht University 

2006-2009 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Chair of Statistics and Social Methods, University of Mannheim