Dr. Hannah Sinja Steinberg
Functions at the IAB
- Employee - Area Research Data Centre (FDZ)
- Employee - Area Research Data Centre (FDZ)
- Employee - Area Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS)
- Member - Working Group Gender Studies
Professional background
Hannah Sinja Steinberg studied Sociology and Statistics (B.A. and M.A.) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. In 2024, she received her doctoral degree at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, focusing on social inequalities in early childhood care decisions.
From 2016 to 2020, she worked at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories in Bamberg, where she conducted research on educational decisions and the emergence of social inequalities. She then joined the German Youth Institute in Munich, in the Department of Family and Family Policy, where she focused on the study of family educational processes and the evaluation of family policy measures. In 2025, she was a research associate in the OPAL team within the research area "Panel Labor Market and Social Security." Since 2026, she has been a member of the scientific staff at the Research Data Centre (Forschungsdatenzentrum – FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the IAB.
Her research focuses on education, family, and gender sociology.