| Name | Institution | Discipline & Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Bach, Maximilian | ZEW – Centre for European Economic Research | Economics – Inequality and education – Skill formation – Design of educational systems |
| Bühler, Jessica | University of Basel | Psychology – Bi-/Multilingualism – Language & cognitive skills development in young children with and without migration background – Socio-emotional development – Early childhood education |
| Civitillo, Sauro | University of Duisburg-Essen | Education Science – Effects of teacher-based ethnic discrimination on student academic outcomes and well-being – Teacher beliefs about cultural diversity in education – Culturally responsive practices and teaching for social justice – School and classroom diversity climate – School adjustment of newly arrived migrants and refugee students – Open science |
| Daniel, Annabell | Freie Universität Berlin | Education Science – Educational inequality – Higher education – School-to-work transitions – Interventions in educational settings – Factorial survey |
| Daumiller, Martin | University of Augsburg | Psychology – Motivation and fostering of motivation in educational settings – Goals and Achievement Goal Theory – Academic dishonesty – Experiences, behaviors, and performance of university scholars – Learning with digital media in the tertiary sector |
| de Moll, Frederick | University of Luxembourg | Education Science – Early childhood education and care – Parenting strategies – Educational inequality – Family life and socialisation – Non-cognitive dispositions |
| Demel, Simona | University of Carlos III de Madrid | Economics – Empathy – Gender differences in self-efficacy and competitiveness |
| Gruijters, Rob | University of Cambridge | Sociology – Educational inequality and school segregation in the global South – Private schools – Life course trajectories and economic inequality – Quantitative methods |
| Heppt, Birgit | IQB – Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (HU Berlin) | Psychology – Assessment, support and development of (academic) language skills – Language support across the curriculum – Immigration-related disparities in students’ academic (language) achievement – Determinants and effects of civic education and democratic school climate – Survey methodology (e.g., effects of incentives, variations of the books-at-home-index) |
| Hermes, Henning | NHH Norwegian School of Economics | Economics – Economics of education – Behavioral economics – Economics of skill formation (focussing on non-cognitive skills) – Development of skills and preferences in childhood and adolescence – Inequalities in educational opportunities – Early childhood education and care |
| Hübener, Mathias | DIW – German Institute for Economic Research | Economics – Economics of human capital formation – Reconciliation of work and family life, and its effects on parents and children – Educational inequality in health – Intergenerational effects of education – Policy impact evaluation of education, family and health-related policies My policy-related research areas include: Parental leave, G8-high school reform, abolitions of day care fees |
| Hübner, Nicolas | University of Tübingen | Psychology – Educational effectiveness and school improvement – Implementation and effects of educational policy reforms – Quantitative methods – Students’ subject specific self-concepts and interests – Teacher professional development – Curriculum research |
| Linberg, Anja | DJI – German Youth Institute | Education Science – Early childhood education and care – Structure and conditions of quality of home and institutional early childhood learning environments – (Differential) effects of educational processes – Impact of interaction quality in early childcare on mathematical development |
| Menze, Laura | WZB – Berlin Social Science Center | Sociology – Sociology of education and labor markets – Returns to education – Vocational training, occupations and social inequality – School-to-work transitions – Transitions of students with special educational needs – Survey methodology |
| Meyer, Jennifer | IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education | Psychology – The interplay of cognitive and noncognitive predictors of school achievement – Motivation in school contexts – The assessment of English as foreign language skills |
| Miyamoto, Ai | GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Psychology – Fluid and crystallized intelligence – Intrinsic motivation and self-concept – Personality (Big Five) – Academic achievement and school success – Measurement invariance – Latent model approach |
| Nusser, Lena | LifBi – Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories | Education Science – Special educational needs – Competence development – Inclusive education – Teaching practices in heterogeneous classrooms |
| Olczyk, Melanie | University of Leipzig | Sociology – Social and ethnic educational inequality (patterns and causes) – Social networks and social capital – Segregation – International comparisons – Quantitative research methods |
| Passaretta, Giampiero | Trinity College Dublin | Sociology – Achievement inequality – Cognitive and non-cognitive skills – Inequality in cognitive development – Gender gap in learning – Causal designs – Comparative research |
| Quis, Johanna Sophie | University of Hannover | Economics – Health Economics – Education Economics – Interplay between (mental) health and education – (Non-)Cognitive skill formation – Self-regulation in children – Impact of institutional factors on individual outcomes |
| Raabe, Isabel | University of Zurich | Sociology – Social inequality and social mobility – Social networks and social processes – Sociology of education – School contexts – Gender and ethnicity |
| Sauer, Petra | Luxembourg Institute of Economic Research (LISER) | Economics – Educational & economic inequalities – Political economy of education & inequality – Labour market segmentation & job quality – Welfare state analysis – Comparative research |
| Scharf, Jan | DIPF – Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education | Sociology – Sociology of education and educational inequality – Primary and secondary effects of social origin – School contexts, values of education and school alienation – Migration and youth studies |
| Schmidt, Fabian | University of Hamburg | Education Science – Students’ academic perseverance (grit, self-control) – (Non-)Cognitive factors in education – Habit formation and measurement – Early childhood reading measurement and development – Educational inequalities (social class, gender, migratory status) |
| Schwabe, Ulrike | DZHW – German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science | Sociology – Research in social stratification – Sociology of education – Sociology of labour markets – Empirical higher education research – (Quantitative) Methods in social sciences – International comparisons – Competence modelling and measurement |
| Schwarzenthal, Miriam | University of Potsdam | Psychology – Intercultural competence and intergroup attitudes among adolescents – Adolescents’ understanding of social inequalities (critical consciousness) – Adolescents’ civic engagement – Classroom cultural diversity climate/Diversity ideologies – Ethnic and national identity exploration – Intercultural and interethnic friendships – Stereotype threat and self-affirmation interventions in educational contexts |
| Steinmann, Isa | TU Dortmund | Psychology – Educational effectiveness research – Student achievement and educational inequality outcomes – International comparative research |
| Werner, Katharina | ifo Institute Munich | Economics – Cognitive and non-cognitive skills – Education aspirations – Inequality in education – Information acquisition – Program evaluation |
| Weßling, Katarina | Maastricht University, ROA | Sociology – Educational and labour market inequality over the life course – School-to-work transitions – Spatial and institutional context effects – Quantitative methods, especially: spatial and multilevel modeling |
| Wolff, Fabian | University of Kiel | Psychology – Academic self-concept development (especially by social, temporal, and dimensional comparison processes) – Competence and personality development (especially in the context of educational stays abroad) – Digitalization of learning environments (especially application of telepresence robots in higher education) |
