Board of SOCLIFE
Please note: As the Research Training Group ended in 2017, this website is no longer updated.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Andreß (Academic Director)
Professor in Social and Economic Research at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 3373
Fax: +49 221 470 2069
E-Mail: hjawiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/
Research interests: Methods of empirical social and economic research; statistics and multivariate methods; EDP usage in the social sciences; labour market research (in particular: unemployment); social and family policy (in particular: poverty)
Selected memberships: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the German Census (Census Commission), Member of the Board of Trustees of the Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences (GESIS), Member of the German Sociological Association
Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol
Professor in Demography and Social Inequality at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 89165
E-Mail: carolwiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/de/personen/prof-dr-sarah-carol/
Research interests: Sociology of migration, religion, family sociology.
Prof. Dr. Eldad Davidov
Professor for Methods of Empirical Social Research and Statistics at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich
Phone: +49 221 470 3614
E-Mail: e.davidov@uni-koeln.de
Web: http://iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de
Research interests: Structural equation modeling applied to survey data, especially in cross-cultural and longitudinal research; Human values, national identity, and attitudes toward immigrants and other minorities; Measurement
Selected memberships: European Survey Research Association (ESRA), International Sociological Association (ISA RC-33 and RC-45), American Sociological Association, German/Swiss Sociological Associations (DGS / SGS)
PD Dr. Hermann Dülmer
Private lecturer at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne.
Phone: +49 221 470-7914
E-Mail: hduelmeruni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/duelmer.html
Research interests: Methods and Statistics of Empirical Social Research (especially Multilevel Analysis, Factorial Surveys), Comparative Culture Research, Political Sociology
Selected memberships: American Sociological Association, European Survey Research Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Sektion Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung), Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Lea Ellwardt
Assistant Professor at the CGS Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne.
Phone: +49 221 470-1223
E-Mail: ellwardtwiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://lea-ellwardt.de
Research interests: social networks, organizations, healthy aging, quantitative methods
Selected memberships: member of the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Detlef Fetchenhauer
Director of the department of Economic and Social Psychology at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 2500
Fax: +49 221 470 5175
E-Mail: detlef.fetchenhaueruni-koeln.de
Web: http://iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/
Research interests: Prosocial and antisocial behavior, laypersons’ understanding of the economy, evolutionary psychology
Selected memberships: Member of the Association for Psychological Science, the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology and the International Society for Justice Research
Prof. Dr. Martina Fuchs
Professor in Economic and Social Geography at the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Social Sciences at the University at Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 7729
Fax: +49 221 470 5009
E-Mail: fuchswiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.wiso.uni-koeln.de/wigeo
Research interests: Global-local relationships, international distribution of competencies and labour, regional learning, labour geography; regional focus: Europe and Latin America; methods of regional research
Selected memberships: Member of international research network: Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces of the International Geographical Union
Prof. Dr. Achim Goerres
Professor of Empirical Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen
E-Mail: Achim.Goerresuni-due.de
Web: http://www.achimgoerres.de
Research interests: Comparative politics, comparative political behaviour, comparative welfare state research, German politics, European politics, applied methods
Selected memberships: Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, American Political Science Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung, Political Studies Association
Prof. Dr. Karsten Hank (Alternate Academic Director)
Professor in Sociology at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 1789
Fax: +49 221 470 5180
E-Mail: hankwiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/
Research interests: Family sociology, population aging, cross-national comparative research, survey methods
Selected memberships: Research Professor at the Department ‘Socio-Economic Panel Study’, DIW Berlin, and at the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA), University of Mannheim; Member of the Working Group on ‘Social Networks’ for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Prof. Dr. Marita Jacob
Professor in Sociology at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 1531
Fax: +49 221 470 5025
E-Mail: marita.jacobuni-koeln.de
Web: http://iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/
Research interests: Social Stratification, Inequality in the Life Course (Educational Inequalities, Labour Market Participation and Family), Quantitative Methods
Selected memberships: Member of the International Sociological Association (Research Committee 28 Social Stratifi¬cation and Mobility), Member of the German Sociological Association, Research Fellow at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jagodzinski
Phone: +49 221 47694 100
Fax: +49 221 47694 904
E-Mail: wolfgang.jagodzinskigesis.org
Research interests: Comparative culture research, political sociology, methods and statistics in empirical social research
Selected memberships: Member of the European Values Survey
Prof. Dr. André Kaiser
Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Social Sciences at the University at Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 2852
Fax: +49 221 470 7447
E-Mail: andre.kaiseruni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.cccp.uni-koeln.de/kaiser1.html?&L=1
Research interests: Comparative political institutions, comparative political economy
Selected memberships: Member of the International Max Planck Research School “The Social and Political Constitution of the Economy” Cologne, Member of international research programme: Selection and De-selection of Political Elites
Prof. Dr. Clemens Kroneberg
Professor in Sociology at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne (from April 2013 onwards).
Phone: +49 221 470 4406
Fax: +49 221 470 5169
E-Mail: ckroneberg@uni-koeln.de
Web: http://iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/
Research interests: Sociological theory (especially action theory and analytical sociology), migration and integration, crime and deviance, methodology of the social sciences.
Prof. Dr. Heiner Meulemann
Phone: +49 221 470 5658
Fax: +49 221 470 5025
E-Mail: meulemannwiso.uni-koeln.de
Research interests: Comparative culture research, sociology of the life course, sociology of media use, social change, methods and statistics in empirical social research
Selected memberships: American sociological Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, European Sociological Association, European Survey Research Association
Prof. Dr. Bettina Rockenbach
Professor of Experimental and Behavioral Economics at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University at Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 8663
Fax: +49 221 470 8668
E-Mail: bettina.rockenbach(at)uni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.behavecon.uni-koeln.de/15046.html
Research interests: Experimental and Behavioral Economics with special interests in cooperation in social dilemmas, social responsibility, industrial economics game theory.
Selected memberships: Affiliated Member of the Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn, Member Scientific Advisory Council of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Sozialwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss im Verein für Sozialpolitik.
Prof. Ingo Rohlfing, PhD
Professor for Political Science, Qualitative Methods at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
Phone: +49 421 218 66410
E-Mail: rohlfing(at)bigsss.uni-bremen.de
Web: https://ingorohlfing.wordpress.com
Research interests: Empirical social research methods; Case study methodology; Multi-method designs; party competition; party organizations
Selected memberships: DVPW, ECPR, APSA (Sections: Qualitative Methods and Multi-Method Research; Political Methodology; Comparative Politics; Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior; Political Networks)
PD Dr. Thomas Schlösser
Private lecturer at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne.
Phone: +49 221 470-2906
E-Mail: t.schloesseruni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/schloesser.html
Research interests: Trust, individual differences in the perception of injustice, emotions in social and non-social situations under risk and uncertainty, normative behavior, social dilemmas
Selected memberships: Secretary of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR), Executive Secretary of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologische Forschung e.V. (GWSF), member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs).
Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter
Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen.
E-Mail: elmar.schluetersowi.uni-giessen.de
Web: http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/fbz/fb03/institute/ifs/perso/schlueter/
Research interests: Interethnic relations, immigrant integration, mass media influences on society, quantitative methods for longitudinal and cross-cultural data analysis
Selected memberships: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, European Survey Research Association, European Association of Methodology
PD Dr. Olga Stavrova
Private lecturer at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne.
Phone: +49 221 470-2842
E-Mail: stavrovawiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/de/personen/pd-dr-olga-stavrova/
Research interests: Morality and prosocial behavior, well-being and meaning, social perception and social judgment, religion, values and beliefs, culture, multilevel research
Selected memberships: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Prof. Dr. Christine Trampusch
Professor of International Comparative Political Economy and Economic Sociology, Economics and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Social Sciences at the University at Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 8807
Fax:
E-Mail: christine.trampuschuni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.cccp.uni-koeln.de/trampusch1.html?&L=1
Research interests: Comparative politics and political economy (especially public policies, varieties of capitalism, welfare state, industrial relations, education policy and politics, financial markets), institutional change, Europeanization und qualitative comparative and case oriented methods
Selected memberships: Member of the International Max Planck Research School “The Social and Political Constitution of the Economy” Cologne (IMPRS), Member of the executive council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economic (SASE), Member of the Council for European Studies (CES) and Co-organizer of the CES Network „Industrial Relations, Skill Formation and Welfare State Policies”, Editorial Board of Zeitschrift für Sozialreform und German Politics.
Prof. Dr. Michael Wagner
Professor in Sociology at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne
Phone: +49 221 470 2975
Fax: +49 221 470 5180
E-Mail: mwagnerwiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de
Research interests: social demography, family sociology, deviant behavior in schools and educational attainment, life course research, methods, meta-analysis in the social sciences
Selected memberhips: Member of international research programmes - European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce
Former Members
Prof. Dr. Eckart Bomsdorf
E-Mail: bomsdorfwiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.wisostat.uni-koeln.de
Member of the Editorial Board of AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
Research interests: Methods of Applied Statistics, Demography, Social Security Systems
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Quack
Associated Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Social Sciences at the University at Cologne and Director of the Research Group “Institution Building across Borders“ at the Max-Planck-Institute of the Study of Societies, Cologne
Phone: +49 221 2767 152
Fax: +49 221 2767 555
E-Mail: quackmpifg.de
Web: http://www.mpifg.de
Research interests: Globalization and Institutional Change; Comparative International Organization Research; Transnational Communities; Institutional Context and Socio Technical Innovation; International Labor, Technology- and Financing Standards
Selected memberships: Member and former Chairwoman of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS)
Prof. Dr. Frank Schulz-Nieswandt
Vice Dean of the Faculty for Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, Director of the Department for Social Policies and the Department for Cooperative Business
Phone: +49 221 470 2766
Fax: +49 221 470 5179
E-Mail: schulz-nieswandtwiso.uni-koeln.de
Web: http://www.sozialpolitik.uni-koeln.de
Research interests: Social policy
Selected memberships: Chairman of the scientific advisory council of the „Bundesverbandes öffentliche Dienstleistungen“, Spokesman of the scientific advisory council of the German Centre of Gerontology
Curator in the curatorship “Deutsche Altershilfe”, Honorary chairman of the Association for Social Progress