|
2004-present |
Director, Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, University of Zurich |
| 2000/2001 |
Director, Department of Sociology, University of Zurich |
| 1994-present |
Professor of Sociology, University of Zurich, Zurich |
| 1990-2005 |
Professor of Sociology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich |
| 1988-1994 |
Privatdocent in Sociology, University of Zurich, Zurich |
| 1980-1988 |
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Zurich |
| 2007-present |
International Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Social
Inequality, Stanford University, CA |
| 2007-2008 |
Fellow at the Center for Advaned Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
University, CA (lead fellow for the Special Project Comparative Perspectives
on Adolescent Development in a Globalizing World. |
| 2002-2003 |
Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford,
CA. |
| 2001 |
Elected Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina |
| 1989-1990 |
Visiting Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, Center for European
Studies and Department of Sociology (Swiss Chair, Fellowship by the Swiss
National Sience Foundation) |
| 1987-1988 |
Fellowship of the Committee for the Promotion of Young Academics, University
of Zurich |
| 1985-1986 |
Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation:
- Visiting Scholar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Centre de recherche de l'education et de la culture, (Professor
Pierre Bourdieu), February-September, 1985.
- Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Stanford University,
(Professor John Meyer), October-December, 1985.
- Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, University of California
at Berkeley, (Professor Neil Smelser), January 1986-June 1986.
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| 2000 |
Visiting Professor (Invited), Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, Winter Quarter 2000. |
| 1997 |
Visiting Scholar (Invited), Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, September 1997-January 1998. |
| 1996 |
Visiting Professor (Invited), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), November. |
| 1995 |
Visiting Professor (Invited), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), April. |
| 1994 |
Visiting Professor (Invited), Department of Sociology, New York University. New York. September-October. |
| 1993 |
Visiting Professor (Invited), Center for the Study of Status Passages and Risks in the Life Course, University of Bremen, Germany, December. |
| 1992 |
Visiting Research Scholar at the New School of Social Research (Invited), Center for the Study of Social Change. |
| 2011 |
DFG Priority Program National Educational Panel Study (N.E.P.S.): Appoint-ed Member of the Review Panel. |
| 2011 |
German Council of Science and Humanities German Excellence Initiative: Appointed Member of the Peer Review Process. |
| 2011-present |
Appointed Member of the European Research Council (ECR) Starting Grants Evaluation Panel, Brussels |
| 2008-present |
Member of the Scientific Board of the Research Program The Discovery of
Learning Potentials Early in the Life Course (Prof. Dr. Heike Solga), Science
Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin |
| 2007-2011 |
Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Encyclopedia of Adolescence (edited
by B. Bradford B. Brown and Mitch Prinstein) |
| 2007-present |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Mannheimer Zentrum für
Europäische Sozialforschung. |
| 2005-2007 |
Consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio program: Reviewer
for the Social Sciences |
| 2002-2007 |
Member of the Scientific Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development
Berlin. |
| 2001-2004 |
German Research Council: Scientific Member of the Senate in Charge of
the Special Research Programs |
| 2001-2004 |
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung: Member of the Scientific Board of the
Transcoop Program (Trans-Atlantic Research Cooperation) |
| 2000-2006 |
Board Member of the European Consortium of Sociological Research (ECSR) |
| 1998-2005 |
Member of the Scientific Board of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie
und Sozialpsychologie, Cologne, Germany |
| 1998-2005 |
Member of the Scientific Board of ZUMA (Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden
und Analysen), Mannheim, Germany |
| 1998-2000 |
Member of the Presidential Committee of the Max-Planck-Society for the
Group of Young Academics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development,
Berlin. |
| 1997-2005 |
Member of the Scientific Board of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für
Sozialforschung, Berlin. |
| 2000 |
Ad-hoc member of the Scientific Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for
Human Development, Berlin, for the Six-Year Evaluation of the Institute. |
| 1998 |
Ad-hoc member of the Scientific Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for
Human Development, Berlin; evaluation of the department "Education,
Employment, and Social Change" (Professor Karl Ulrich Mayer). |
| 2005 |
Member of the Conference Organization Committee of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) for the Conference “Comparative European Studies: Assessing Ten Years of Sociological Research”, Paris, November 24-26. |
| 2005 |
Organization of the international Conference „Comparative Perspectives on Adolescent Development in a Globalizing World: Changing Opportunities, Constraints and Pathways of Risk”. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA., August 4-6. |
| 2004 |
Vice-Chair of the Euresco Conference “European Society or European Societies? On the Causes and Consequences of Low Education in Contemporary Europe”, Granada, September 18-23. |
| 2004 |
Member of the Scientific Committee for the Conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 (RC28) “Social Stratification and Mobility, Neuchâtel, May, 7-9. |
| 2000 |
Member of the Evaluation Group of the Social Sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin. |
| 2000 |
Member of the Selection Committee for the Chair of Social Stratification and Inequality at the European University Institute, Florence |
| 2000 |
Co-organization (with Professor Karl Ulrich Mayer and PD Michael Corsten, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin) of the conference "The Future of Work", Jacobs Foundation, Marchbach Castle, November 10-12 |
| 1997-1999 |
European Sociological Association: Re-elected Member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President, responsible for research networks |
| 1997 |
Member of the Evaluation Group appointed by the Scientific Council of Germany charged with the evaluation of social science institutions in Germany ("Gesellschaft für sozialwissenschaftliche Einrichtungen e.V." Bonn, Köln, Mannheim) |
| 1995-1997 |
European Sociological Association: Member of the Executive Committee |
| 1996 |
Co-organization of the sessions "Democracy in Europe: Institutions and Citizenship" at the Third European Conference of Sociology of the European Sociological Association (with Professor Klaus Eder and Dr. Oliver Schmidtke, Humbold University Berlin), Colchester, August 27-30 |
| 1995 |
Co-organization (with Professor Volker Bornschier) of the spring conference of the Research Committee 28 (Social Stratification and Mobility) of the International Sociological Association, Zurich, May 25-27 |
| 1991-1994 |
European Sociological Review: Member of the Editorial Board |
| 1984-1991 |
Associate Editor of the Swiss Journal of Sociology |
| 1982-1989 |
Member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss Sociological Association, Elected-at-Large |
