Professor Monika Jungbauer-Gans

Monika Jungbauer-Gans studied sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich where she was awarded a PhD in 1992 and her postdoctoral qualification (habilitation) in 2001. From 2002 to 2004 she held a temporary appointment as Professor of Sociological Theory at the University of Wuppertal. From 2005 to 2010 she held the Chair of Sociology at Kiel University and from 2010 to 2015 the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She has been Scientific Director of the German Centre of Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Hannover since September 2015.

Her research interests lie in the areas of sociology of education, higher education research, labour market research, medical sociology and sociology of health, qualitative and quantitative research methods of empirical social research.