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Education:

Academic positions:

since 2018: tenured assistant professor at University of Groningen / ICS
2015-2018: assistant professor at University of Groningen / ICS
2014-2015: senior scientist (in German: Oberassistent), ETH Zurich, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation
2013 (October): academic guest at Cornell University, invited by Michael Macy
2011-2014: post-doctoral researcher, ETH Zurich, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation
2010-2011: post-doctoral researcher, University of Groningen / ICS
2008 (September-November): academic guest at ETH Zurich, invited by Dirk Helbing and Andreas Diekmann
2005-2010: Ph.D. student at the ICS, University of Groningen
2005 (Summer term): Lecturer, University of Leipzig, Chair of theoretical Sociology (Prof. Dr. Thomas Voss)
2002-2005: Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Karl-Dieter Opp and Prof. Dr. Kurt Mühler, University of Leipzig

Awards

Best Paper award for a paper presented at Workshop on Social Influence at 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014).
Anatol-Rapoport-Prize 2012. Best-paper award of the section on Model Building and Simulation of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
Best Poster Award for a poster presented at the International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences (ETH Zurich, August 2008)
Best Thesis Award of the Department of Sociology, University of Leipzig (2005)

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