Ph.D. Student in the SNF-project Young people’s transition to Gymnasium and the role of private and public supplementary learning programs

In my ethnographic PhD project I focus on class-based inequalities at the transtion to Gymnasium and public elite education in Zurich.

• Geographies of education
• Educational policy and governance
• Inequalites
• Urban studies
• Qualitative methods

I am part of the research group Geographies of Young People and Education.

Since 01/2021: Universität Zürich: Ph.D. Candidate

08/2023-10/2023 University of Illinois Chicago: Visiting scholar at the College of Education

2020 – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: M.A. Urban Geography 

08/2019 – 12/2019 University of British Columbia: Exchange semester at the Department of Sociology and the Department of Geography

2017 – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: B.A. Geography

01/2016 – 05/2016 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Visiting scholar at the Department of Urban & Regional Planning  

Universität Zürich

Grundkurs Geographie: Stadtgeographie (Fall 2023)

GEO 122 Introduction Human Geography II (Spring 2021 and Spring 2022)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Tutorium Einführung Kultur- und Sozialgeographie (Fall 2016/17, Fall 2017/18, Fall 2018/19)

Statistics with SPSS, Co-Teaching with PD Dr. H. Kreibich (Fall 2016/17)

Organisation and concept of the lecture series «Humboldts Fußabdruck – Forschen für Nachhaltigkeit» (with J. Lange, J. Müller & B. Ibele) (Spring 2015)

"Wir lernen Latein und sie lernen kochen" - öffentliche Elite(n)bildung in Zürichs geteiltem städtischen Schulsystem (06/2023). Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaften für Bildungsforschung, Zürich/CH.

Parental responsibilisation & camouflaging class at a highly selective educational transition in Zurich, Switzerland (03/2023). AAG Annual Meeting, Online.

Der Übertritt Jugendlicher ans Gymnasium und die Rolle privater und öffentlicher Prüfungsvorbereitungsprogramme (03/2023). Vortrag und Leitung Workshop mit I. Bauer, S. Landolt, L. Landolt, H. Sommer; Schulleitungskonferenz Schulkreis Uto, Zürich/CH.

Parental responsibilisation & camouflaging class at a highly selective educational transition in Zurich, Switzerland (08/2022). Vortrag mit S. Landolt; RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Online.

A changing geography of educational opportunities in Zurich? (06/2021). Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, Online.