Curriculum vitae

Study at the Free University Berlin     

Oct. 2001  
Dissertation "Early Exits with Changing Firm Strategies"
Christina Teipen: Die Frühverrentung im Wandel betrieblicher Strategien. ISBN 3-87988-735-7, ¬Rainer Hampp Verlag, München and Mering 2003, 286 pages.      

April 1993  
Diploma      

Oct. 1985 - April 1993  
Sociology studies as major, economics, statistics and philosophy as minor subjects          

Additional Qualification     

July 2000  
GAAC summer institute "The Economics and Politics of Labor in Advanced Societies" under the leadership of Prof. Claus Offe, Humboldt Universität Berlin, and Prof. Martin Rein at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)      

Aug. - Sept. 1999  
and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge/USA          

Science Related Experience     

Summer 2009  
Temporary chair in sociology, focus on labour and knowledge, at the ¬Georg-August-Universität Göttingen     

Since Sept. 2000  
Research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)      

July 1999 - June 2000  
Research fellow at Institut für Soziologie of Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, director Prof. Dr. Rudi Schmidt in the DFG-research project "Berufsbiographien und Handlungspotentiale ostdeutscher Manager"      

May - Dec. 1998  
Research fellow at the chair of industrial sociology of the BTU Cottbus, Prof. Dr. Sabine Gensior      

April - June 1998  
Free-lance contributor to the research project "New Challenges for Service Occupations" at the "Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung Berlin", directors: PD Dr. Michael Corsten and Prof. Dr. Karl-Ulrich Mayer      

May 1993 - March 1998  
Research fellow at the Institute of Sociology (FU) in the research project "Flexibilization of the Transition to Retirement", director: Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli      

Sept. 1990 - Aug. 1992  
Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology (FU) in the research project "Old Age and Trade Union Politics", director: Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli      

May - Aug.1990  
Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology (FU) in the research project "Activity Patterns in Old Age", director: Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli  

 

Research Interests 

Macro institutional and industry-specific factors of

Work-related policies and

Industrial relations

Corporate Governance

 

Research Projects at WZB

From the Chandlerian Business Model to Wintelism?

ESEMK - European Socio-Economic Models of a Knowledge-Based Society

 

Courses      

Summer 2009  
Advanced seminar „Nationale Kapitalismusmodelle und Branchenunterschiede“.      

Summer 2009  
Proseminar I for lecture „Einführung in die Soziologie der Arbeit und des Wissens“, Georg-August-University Göttingen.      

Summer 2009  
Proseminar III for lecture „Einführung in die Soziologie der Arbeit und des Wissens“ an der Georg-August-University Göttingen.      

Summer 2009  
Lecture „Einführung in die Soziologie der Arbeit und des Wissens“, Georg-August-University Göttingen.      

Winter 2008/09  
Winter 2008/09 Seminar „Corporate Governance und Arbeitsbeziehungen: Theoretische Ansätze und empirische Dynamiken“, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin.      

Winter 2007/08  
Seminar „Industriespezifische Beschäftigungsmodelle in den USA und Deutschland“, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin.      

Summer 2004  
Seminar „Beschäftigungsmodelle: nationale und industriespezifische Differenzen“, Institute of Sociology, FU Berlin.        

 

Memberships         

BritishAcademyof Management (BAM)

Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship (EU), Working Group 3, COST A13

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches Permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de l'Automobile (GERPISA)

German Association for  Labour Market Research of Social Sciences (SAMF)

German Industrial Relations Association (GIRA)

Sections "Industrial Sociology and Sociology of the Firm", "Political Sociology" of the German Sociological Association (GSA)

International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA)

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)