PD Dr Brigitte Schels

PD Dr Brigitte Schels attended the Economics and Social Sciences Faculty of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)to study social sciences.

She received her doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim in 2012. From 2011 to 2015, she was active as a researcher at the Chair of Sociology and Empirical Research at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). From 2015 to 2023, Brigitte Schels was an Assistant Professor for Labour Market Sociology at the FAU. In 2020 and 2021, she has been a visiting professor for Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods at the University of Vienna.

She has been a member of IAB’s research staff since September 2005.