Professional Experience
since 2022 | Tenure track professorship for the field of Social Science Research on Religion, research centre “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society”, University of Vienna |
2018-2022 | Postdoc fellow for migration research at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
2020 | Visiting research fellow, EURAC Research Center Bolzano, Italy |
2017-2018 | Postdoc researcher (Univ.- Ass. postdoc) at the interdisciplinary research platform „Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society”, University of Vienna |
2015 | Guest researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada |
2012-2015 | Predoc researcher (Univ.- Ass. praedoc), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna |
2012 | Visiting scholar, Center for Research on Religion, University of Lucerne, Switzerland |
2012 | Research project “Muslim Youth Groups in Vienna”, funded by the “University of Vienna Research Grant 2012” |
2010-2012 | Project researcher “Mapping Religion in Vienna”, Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna |
Education
2013-2017 | PhD (Dr.phil.) in social sciences, focus: political science, University of Vienna, with distinctions Thesis title: “Integrating religion – The roles of religion in Austrian, German and Swiss immigrant integration policies” |
2006-2011 | Master’s degree (Mag.) in religious studies, University of Vienna |
2006-2011 | Master’s degree (Mag. phil) in political science, University of Vienna |
06.6.2006 | High school diploma (Matura) |