Functions at the IAB
Professional background
Dr. Kerstin Ostermann studied economics and sociology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen und National University of Ireland Galway and social economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg from 2013 to 2019. In 2025, she defended her dissertation in the graduate programme of the IAB.
Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher in the department „Regional Labor Markets“.
Her research focuses on geodata and how to use it to learn more about how social networks and norms affect social inequality.