Position: Research Assistant
Third-party funded project: eTelligence Teaching: Professional development module “Market Research Placement”, Supervision of final-year dissertations
Christopher Meinecke, MA in Sociology
Chair of Sales and Marketing
Institute of Business Administration and Business Education
University of Oldenburg
Ammerländer Heerstraße 114–118
D-26129 Oldenburg Email: Tel.: 0441-798-4782 Room: A5-1-106

Born in 1983 Since October 2011
doctoral candidate at the Chair of Sales and Marketing (Prof. Dr Thorsten Raabe) at CvO University of Oldenburg Since October 2011
teaching staff for special tasks (LfbA) at the Chair of Sales and Marketing at CvO University of Oldenburg Since April 2010
Research assistant at the OFFIS Institute for Computing Science in the Energy R&D division 2010–2011
Lecturer at the Chair of Sales and Marketing at CvO University of Oldenburg 2009–2010
Study abroad at the University of Warwick (UK) in the Department of Sociology 2009
Tutor for statistical analysis and STATA during the summer semester 2009 at the University of Bremen
2008–2009
Student assistant in the Statistics and Empirical Social Research Unit
(Prof. Dr Uwe Engel) at the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS)
at the University of Bremen 2007–2008
Student assistant at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS)
at the University of Bremen 2007–2010
Master’s degree in ‘Sociology and Social Research’ at the University of Bremen
Areas of focus: quantitative empirical social research, education and the labour market 2006
Internship at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin (DIW) in the ‘
’ department, Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), under the supervision of Prof. Dr Martin Spieß 2004–2007
Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the University of Bremen
Areas of focus: quantitative empirical social research, electoral and party politics

Kramer, O., Wilken, O., Beenken, P., Hein, A., Hüwel, A., Klingenberg, T., Meinecke, C., Raabe, T., Sonnenschein, M. (2012): On Ensemble Classifiers for Non-intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring. 7th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS) 2012, pp. 322–331 Raabe, T., Sonnenschein, M., Beenken, P., Hüwel, A., Meinecke, C. (2012): Energy advice for households based on smart metering. In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften 1/2012, pp. 46–50

Pötschke, M., Meinecke, C. (2008): Potential and limitations of multi-level analyses. Using the example of factors influencing first-time voters. Presentation at the annual conference of the working group ‘Empirical Methods in Political Science’ of the German Political Science Association (DVPW)