Prof. Dr. Heike Solga

since 05 2008 Director of the Research Unit “Skill Formation and Labor Markets” at WZB Berlin Social Science Center

since 05 2008 Professor of Sociology at the Free University Berlin

10 2006 – 03 2010 Member of the directory board of the Sociological Research Institute Göttingen (SOFI)

10 2007 – 04 2008 Acting director of the Research Unit “Skill formation and Labor Markets” (in formation) at WZB Berlin Social Science Center

04 2005 – 04 2008 Professor of Sociology, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Institute of Sociology

10 2004 – 03 2005 Professor of Sociology, University Leipzig, Institute of Sociology

07 1999 – 05 2005 Head of the Independent Research Group on “Lack of Training: Employment and Life Chances of the Less Educated” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (from Oct. 2004 – May 2005 on a part-time basis)

02 1995 – 06 1999 Senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Center for Sociology and the Study of the Life Course

01 1992 – 01 1995 Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Center for Sociology and the Study of the Life Course