Father of two (3,5 years), grew up with a Turkish mother and a German father, plays computer games since childhood, grows hot chili peppers under artificial light, plays a duduk to annoy the neighbors.
PhD (Dr. phil.) University of Münster in Cultural Anthropology and Psychology Continuation of doctorate at the University of Hamburg
2005-2010
M.A. in Sociology with minors in Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, Educational Science, University of Münster Grade: 1,2 (among best 5% of the class)
Awards
2023
Teaching Award in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
2022
Teaching Award in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
2021
Scholarship of the Global Young Faculty, Mercator Foundation
2020
PhD Thesis Award of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Sociology of the Body and Sports
2020
DOSB Research Award – German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) (3rd Place)
Research Areas
Gender Diversity (partic. Intersex/DSD and Transgender in Sport and Medicine)
Sociology of Sport, Technology, and Body
Technological resilience and crisis research (partic. Health Technology, “Pandemic Preparedness”)
Qualitative Research Methods (partic. discourse analysis, narrative interviews, ethnography, systematic and scoping reviews, computational methods for analysis of qualitative data analysis)
German-Japanese Exchange on Health Technologies
Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education (partic. areas of application, expectations and usage behavior of students)
Research Associate at the Leuphana University Lüneburg
08/2010-09/2010
Visiting Student, Faculty of Social Sciences, Adam-Mickiewicz-University Posen, Poland
08/2008-05/2010
Student Assistant at the Institute for Sex Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf; Student assistant: DFG project “Treatment experiences and treatment satisfaction of people with different forms of intersex/DSD” (Head: Prof. Dr. Hertha Richter-Appelt) and the BZgA-funded project “Sexual and social relationships of 17- and 18-year-old women and men” (Head: Dr. Silja Matthiesen)