Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pollak

since 09/2019 Professor for sociologie at Universität of Mannheim and Head of the department "Monitoring Society and Social Change" at GESIS

since 01/2014 Professor for sociology, especially sociology of education, Freie Universität Berlin

10/2012 - 08/2019 Head of the Project Group "National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning” at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin

2009 - 09/2012 Research fellow and deputy director of the Project Group "National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning” at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin

2009 Dissertation (Dr. rer. soc.) at University of Mannheim; Title: "Equal Opportunities through Education? A Cross-National Comparison of the Effect of Education on Social Mobility in 20th Century Europe" (in German)

2007 – 2008 Research fellow at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin (WZB) in the Research Unit "Inequality and Social Integration"

2001 – 2006 Research Fellow at University of Mannheim

1994 – 2001 Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education at University of Mannheim and Indiana University, Bloomington, USA; Diplom at University of Mannheim. Thesis: „Education and Social Mobility in Germany“ (in German)