Curriculum Vitae

Academic career

since 10.2025
Research assistant in the DFG project "How children are cared for to make them care about something in residential child care" (CareAbout) at the University of Kassel, fb01 Human Sciences

12.2022
Doctorate in Educational Science at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Thesis title: "Risk management in child protection. Judgment and decision-making in cases of child endangerment through fragility tests", overall grade: magna cum laude

10.2018 - 08.2022
Research assistant at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Faculty 5 Educational Sciences, Department of Social Pedagogy

09 - 10.2018
Research stay at California State University, East Bay combined with ethnographic research in a social service agency

06.2016 - 09.2018
Research assistant in the DFG project: "Case-constitutive judgment formation using the example of child endangerment assessments during unannounced home visits in social work", Institute of Educational Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Study

10.2012 - 04.2016
Master of Arts in Social Pedagogy in Education, Training and Further Education, at the Institute for Social Work at the University of Kassel

10.2007 - 03.2012
Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, at the Institute for Social Work at the University of Kassel

Activities in socio-educational practice

05.2024
Further training as an experienced specialist in child protection (IseF)

09.2022 - 08.2025
Employment as a state-recognized social pedagogue in outpatient educational support, Diakonisches Werk Region Kassel