PhD Student at the Graduate School “The Future of the European Social Model”
Humboldtallee 3
37073 Goettingen
Phone: 0049-551-39-2380
E-Mail: swiese2@gwdg.de

Curriculum vitae
Date of birth: August 26th 1972

since 10/2003
Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the Graduate School “The Future of the European Social Model”, Georg August University, Goettingen

10/01 - 09/02
Scientific Assistant for housing, urban planning and traffic policy with the social democratic group in the regional parliament of Saxonia-Anhalt

09/01
MA (German Diplom) in Urban and Regional Planning

07/98 - 11/00
Teaching and Technical Assistant with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Häußermann
at Humboldt University Berlin (Chair for Urban and Regional Sociology)

02/97 - 08/98
Student Researcher with Prof. Dr. Hellmut Wollmann
at Humboldt University Berlin (Chair for Public Administration)

10/94 - 04/97
Member of the Board of the association Bürgernahe Kommunalpolitik in Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. – since 01/95 Co-Speaker

06/94 - 05/97
Member of the City Council of the town of Gardelegen
– Speaker of the civic movement / green parliamentary group

04/93 - 09/01
Studies:
Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University Berlin; Focus on Urban and Regional Economics

Social Sciences / Sociology at Humboldt University Berlin and at the Technical University Berlin; Focus on Urban and Regional Sociology and Economic Sociology


Scientific Interests
- urban and regional sociology and housing research
- economic sociology - especially research on varieties of capitalism
- transition research with a regional focus on Bulgaria and South Eastern Europe
- comparison of European societies


Title of the PhD-Project
Market, state, hierarchy, and community as forms of the institutional governance in European housing provision systems