Scientific curriculum vitae

 

  • Extraordinary professor at the Faculty for Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam
  • Managing Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Youth and Socialisation at the University of Potsdam

 

 

22.10.1953Born in Vehlefanz near Berlin, Germany
1974-1978Teacher training studies in mathematics and physics with additional specialisation in pedagogical psychology at Humboldt University of Berlin, degree thesis in pedagogical psychology
1978-1985Mathematics and physics teacher, lecturer at the Pedagogical Psychology Centre for further teacher training in Oranienburg, Germany
1985-1988Research studies at the Institute for Pedagogical Psychology in Berlin, department for Developmental Psychology; dissertation based on a longitudinal analysis concerning the development of socio-cognitive abilities in pre-school children entitled: "Development and testing of a trainee programme for facilitating social abilities in pre-school children, aged 4 to 5, for coping with co-operational demands"
1988-1989Scientific assistant at the Institute for Education, Berlin, department for "Family Education"
1990-1991Head of the research section "Pedagogic-Psychological Family Research" at the Berlin Institute for Family and Social Pedagogics
1991-1993Scholarship for habilitation of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) in connection with the Free University of Berlin. Lectures at the same university as well as Potsdam University
1991-to dateFounder and head of the Institute for Applied Research on Childhood, Youth, and the Family (IFK) in Vehlefanz, Germany, an institute closely connected to Potsdam University
1993-1999Managing Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Youth and Socialisation at the University of Potsdam
1996Habilitation thesis on: "How do pre-school children perceive their parents in situations of conflict? The Family Interaction Test for Children (FIT-K) as a family diagnostic instrument for the registration of children's reactions to parent-child interaction"
1997Permission for lecturing pedagogical psychology, family and youth psychology
1999-to dateHead of the Centre for Research on Education and Socialisation at the University of Potsdam
2002Appointed lecturer at the Faculty for Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam
2003Habilitation at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam. Permission for lecturing Family, Youth and Educational Sociology at the University of Potsdam
2005Appointment as extraordinary professor at the Faculty for Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam