Since September 2019 Senior teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Educational Science with focus on Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Education at the University of Zurich
2013-2022 Lecturer and project leader at the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, Department Social Work, Co-project leader with Dr. Susanna Niehaus: Research project (NRP 76): ‘Welfare practice in response to child neglect: Reconstruction and analysis of the discourse on family, childrearing, and motherhood’ (2018 – 2021)
Doctorate in Educational Science (Dr. phil.), University of Zurich, thesis title ‘Masculinity and nationalism. Analyses of the self portrayal of right-wing youth’, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Fatke (2012), Dissertation published 2015 by Chronos Verlag Zürich. Title: Männlichkeit und Nationalismus. Deutung der Selbstdarstellung rechtsorientierter junger Erwachsener.
2009–2011 teaching and research assistant at the Chair of special education: society, participation and disability, University of Zurich (2009 – 2011)
Doctoral student Marie Heim-Vögtlin programme Swiss National Science Foundation (2010 – 2011)
Doctoral student National Research Programme 40+: ‘Right-wing extremism’, University of Zurich (2004 – 2007)
Social worker, Zurich (1998 – 2004 & 2012 – 2013)
lic. phil. in Educational Science (social pedagogy, civil law, psychopathology in childhood and adolescence), University of Zürich (2002)