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
Since September 2013 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)