Vita

Academic Positions

1998  - present: Full Professor, Chair of General Sociology and Theory of Society at LMU Munich.
1997 - 1998: Substitute Professor at LMU Munich and University of  Munster
1994 - 1997: Senior Assistant and Priv.-Doz. at University of Munster
1994: Habilitation in Sociology
1992: Doctoral Degree in Sociology
1988 - 1994: Research Assistant at University of Munster
1986 - 1988: Scholarship Fellow at University of Munster
1979 - 1985: Studies of Educational Science, Philosophy and Sociology at University of Munster and Hagen
1979: German Higher Education Entrance Qualification in Gelsenkirchen
1960: Born in Tübingen, grown up in Munich, Landshut, Teheran, Gelsenkirchen

University Self-Administration

Since 2009: Member of Board of University Representatives from the LMU Munich
Since 2009: Member of the University Council from the LMU Munich
2014 - 2016: Managing Director of  the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich
2005 -  2007: Vice Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at LMU Munich
2004 - 2007: Managing Director of the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich
1999 - 2003: Managing Director of Department of Sociology at LMU Munich

Memberships

Since 2018 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation.
Since 2016 Member of the Council „Soziologische Theorie" in the German Research Foundation
Since 2016 Member of the Advisory Board in the Department Education and und Discourse at the Cultural Department of Goethe-Institute
Since 2014 Member of the Selection Commitee for the Geschwister-Scholl Preis, Capital Munich and the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, LV Bavaria
Since 2013 Member of the German Thesis Award from the Körber-Foundation Hamburg
Since 2012 Member of the Board from the Research Institute of Philosophie Hannover
Since 2012 Member at the Expert Panel Television from the Bayerischer Rundfunk
Since 2012 Member of the Foundation Council from the Nemetschek-Foundation Munich
Since 2011 Member of the Selection Board for the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Since 2011 Member of the Advisory Board Political Education of the Münchner Volkshochschule
2007 - 2014: Member of the Council from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Since 2006 Member of the Jury for the Award Bayerischer Architekturpreis
Since 2006 Member of the Board from Münchner Kompetenzzentrum Ethik
Since 2004 Member of the Advisory Board for the Forum at Haus der Architektur,  Bayerische Architektenkammer
Since 2002 Member of the Board from Human Science Center (HWZ) from the LMU Munich, since 2009 Deputy Managing Head.