∙ Visiting professorship at the University of St. Gallen, summer term 2021
∙ Four months scholarship from the International Centre for Cultural Studies in Vienna (IFK) (2004)
∙ PhD (Dr. Phil.) at the Technical University Berlin - Summa Cum Laude (2001)
∙ One year scholarship from the German Protestant Study Foundation (1989)

∙ Director of the doctoral studies programme Social Sciences at the University of Vienna ( 2016-2020)
∙ Member of the Jury of The Rachel Tanur Memorial Price of Visual Sociology 2014, 2016, 2018
∙ Spokesperson of the key area of research 'Visual Studies in Social Sciences' at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Vienna (since 2010)
∙ President of the research committee 38 'Biography & Society' at the International Sociological Association (ISA) (July 2010-2018)
∙ Mitglied der European Sociological Association (ESA) – Board Member im Biography-Research Network (1997-1999 und 2001-2007)
∙ Member of the German Sociological Association (DGS) (since 1987) - board member of the section Biographical Research (since 2004); member of the Section Sociology of Knowledge (since 2008) and Methods of Qualitative Research (since 2003)
∙ Member of the Austrian Association for Sociology (since 2005) - section Theory and section Feminist Theory and Gender Research

∙ Reviews on project applications for the German Research Foundation (DFG)
∙ Review of a case of plagiarism at the University of Goettingen
∙ Review of a Junior Professorship at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
∙ Review of PhD proposals submitted to the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Languages of Emotions’ at the Free University of Berlin, 03/2010
∙ Peer reviews of journal articles to be published in Visual Communication, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the European Journal of Women’s Studies, Soziale Welt, Sozialer Sinn, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (Austrian Journal of Sociology), Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung (Journal for Qualitative Research), Forum Qualitative Social Research (Forum for Qualitative Research), European Journal of Social Theory