Research Current projectsOrigins matter: Immigrant selectivity in Western Europe 2019-2022 Funding Agency: DFGWhen immigrants are aiming high: Educational achievement and attainment in light of greater aspirations 2018-2020 Funding Agency: DFG (DFG priority program 1646 ?Education as a lifelong process“)Recent immigration processes and early integration trajectories in Germany 2017-2020 Funding Agency: DFG Completed projectsImmigrants' first and second language proficiency and social integration (2nd funding period) 2015-2018 Funding Agency: DFG (DFG priority program 1646 ?Education as a lifelong process“)Moving beyond mean differences: The role of educational systems in ethnic educational achievement and labor market inequality 2015-2018 Funding Agency: DFGForeign accents and immigrants’ labor market integration 2014-2016Immigrants’ first and second language proficiency and social integration (1st funding period) 2012-2015 Funding Agency: DFG (DFG priority program 1646 ?Education as a lifelong process“)KuL - Competence acquisition and learning preconditions 2012-2015 Funding Agency: BMBFSCIP - Causes and consequences of early socio-cultural integration processes among new immigrants in Europe 2009-2013 Funding Agency: NORFACE (DFG)Ethnic inequalities across the educational career: Trends since 2005 2013 Funding Agency: Stiftung Mercator Research networksNEPS - National Education Panel Study: Education acquisition with migration background in the life course Former research networksPathways to Power: The Representation of citizens of immigrant origin in eight European democracies (‘PATHWAYS’)Ethnic educational inequality in comparative perspective 2005-2010 Funding Agency: EU [Network of Excellence: Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC)]