He accepted the offer at the University of Leipzig and will start there in autumn 2011. He declined the offer at the University of Trier. He already declined an offer for a professorship for Sociology of Education at the Technical University of Munich in 2010. Currently, he is a Junior Professor of Sociology with a special focus on educational inequality in the life course at the University of Bamberg and he is also the coordinator of the department on developments in Pre-School- and Primary-School-Age of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).