– Study of Geography (Diploma) at the University of Bonn, Germany, and the University of Bristol, UK – Research associate at UNU-EHS in Bonn – Doctoral student in a graduate school on social policy and welfare state transformation – Research associate at University of Duisburg-Essen, Chair of Prof. Dr Simone Leiber, social policy and social work – PhD thesis in 2020 on the design of working conditions of live-ins in private households of elderly people in Germany – since April 2020 research associate at IWAK, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany, working on the legalisation of informal work arrangements in the state of Hesse