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Migration Research Group Hamburg Institute of International Economics |
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| Education | |
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1994 - 2001 |
Teaching Degree (1. Staatsexamen) in Economics & Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 1998 - 2001 | M.A. in Geography, Political Economy & Business Administration, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 2002 - present | PhD project in Socio-Economic Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| PhD thesis: "Social capital of ethnic entrepreneurs." | |
| Awards/ Fellowships | |
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1998 - 2001 |
Scholarship from the Dr Gerhard Weil Foundation, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
| 2001 | Price awarded for an outstanding M.A. thesis by the Franconian Geographical Society (Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft FGG), Erlangen |
| 2002 - 2004 | PhD project grant from the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich, Germany |
| Professional Experience | |
| 10/1998 - 03/1999 | Researcher in a German Research Foundation (DFG) project entitled "Tropical mountain forests in Southern Ecuador" on the social part of the project in Southern Ecuador |
| 2001 - 2002 | Consultant in GIS-based social research projects commissioned by the Protestant church of Bavaria |
| 2002 - 2003 | Researcher in a Bavarian pilot scheme related to the Agenda 21 concerning the "Situation of Women in the Administrative District of Ansbach". The project was financed by the European Social Fonds and the Government of Bavaria |
| 2004 - present | Researcher at the HWWA-Migration Research Group in the EU funded project on migrant networks "KnowMig" |
| Publications | |
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2001 |
„Ethnic Business“ in Nürnberg: Fallstudie Dönerkebap. In: Mitteilungen der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 48, 2001: 247-272. (Ethnic business in Nuremberg: case study on the donar kebap trade). |
| Selected Presentations | |
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09 / 2003 |
Royal Geographic Society-Institute of British Geographers RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2003 in London, UK; Topic: Ethnic Business Research in Germany. |
| 10 / 2003 | 54th German Geographical Conference (Deutscher Geographentag) in Bern, Switzerland; Topic: Social Capital of Ethnic Entrepreneurs. |