Social work studies at the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt on the Main Diplom Social Worker. Studies in education, sociology and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt on the Main Diplom Pedagogue.Ph.D. conferred magna cum laude from the Department of Educational Science of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt on the Main.Main Areas of Research: Theories of adult education, Didactics of adult education, Jewish adult education, Theory and didactics of adult education with a social-pedagogical emphasis, Adult education in post-communist countries.Membership in scientific societies and project groups:German Society for Educational Science,Department of Adult Education and Department of Social Pedagogy.International Society for Comparative Adult Education (ISCAE).Network for Research in Jewish Education (NRJE), New York.Alliance for Adult Jewish Learning, New York.Martin Buber Society, Heidelberg.Commission for the Evaluation of Universities of Applied Sciences in Hessen, Wiesbaden.