Professor Marita Jacob
Professor of Sociology
University of Cologne, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Professional career and research topics
From 2000 to 2003, Marita Jacob was PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. From 2003 to 2005, she worked as a senior researcher in the Research Department “Education, the Labour Market, Life Courses” at the IAB. After that, she acted as Assistant Professor for Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Mannheim. Since 2011, she has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne.
Marita Jacob is Vice-Dean Academic Career at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. She is chair of the ethics committee of GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim and chair of the jury awarding the Fritz Thyssen Prize for essays in the social sciences. In 2004, she was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for outstanding achievements by young scientists.
Her research focusses on social stratification, inequality in the life course, especially educational inequalities, labour market participation and family.