since Oct 2015

Associate lecturer at the Seminar of East Asian Studies (OAS), Free University Berlin

since April 2014

Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", research project B13 "Adaptation and Legitimation as Factors of Effective Governance in China, 1949-1957"

2012

Associate research assistant, Department of Sociology, Hamburg University, “Network Participation of Multiple Discriminated People” (research funded by the European Social Fund (ESF)

2003 - 2012

M.A. China Studies, Sociology and Gender Studies; Thesis: “China’s ‘Ants’: Low-Income University Graduates in the Peoples’ Republic of China. Lian Si and the Current Debate on Education, Labor and the Housing Market
Full scholarship received from Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, Germany

2008-2009

Peoples' University, Beijing, China; One-year full-time language program (advanced level)

2007-2008

Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China; One-year full-time language program (intermediate level)