Who is behind the prof*panel study?

Project team

Prof. Dr. Sandra Buchholz

Phone: +49 (0)511 450670-176

Sandra Buchholz is a professor of Sociology at Leibniz University Hannover. Since 2018, she heads the department "Educational Careers and Graduate Employment" at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies. Sandra Buchholz studied at the University of Bielefeld; she completed her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Bamberg. In her research, Sandra Buchholz deals with questions of social inequality. The analysis of social differentiation processes in people's career paths is a thematic focus of her research.

PD Dr. Jasmin Kizilirmak

Phone: +49 (0)511 450670-164

Jasmin Kizilirmak joined the DZHW department "Educational Trajectories and Employment" in January 2023 and took over the project management of the DZHW professors' survey (prof*panel). She holds a degree in psychology (TU Braunschweig) and a doctorate from the Philipps University of Marburg. She habilitated at the University of Hildesheim, where she still teaches. Her research interests include the career trajectories of scientists, in addition to learning and memory from a neurocognitive and neurodidactic perspective.

Dr. Frauke Peter

Phone: +49 (0)511 450670-126

Frauke Peter is deputy head of the department "Educational Careers and Graduate Employment" at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies. She holds a Master's degree in Economics from Royal Holloway University of London and completed her doctorate in Economics at Freie Universit�t Berlin. Frauke Peter's research addresses access to and returns from higher education. She has conducted several randomized control trials and methodologically uses machine learning approaches in addition to quasi-experimental methods.

Claudia Begemann

Phone: +49 (0)511 450670-165

Claudia Begemann has been employed as a doctoral candidate in the Research Area "Educational Careers and Graduate Employment" at the German Centre of Higher Education Research and Science Studies since September 2023. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Gender Studies from the University of Konstanz, as well as a Master's degree in Sociology and Demography from the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. In her research, Claudia Begemann is particularly interested in social inequality in educational trajectories and its determinants, such as gender or social background.

The scientific project team is actively supported by the student assistant Lisa-Marie Steinkampf.

Accompanying expert panel

The work of the project team is accompanied by

Prof. Dr. Eva Barl�sius

Professor for Macrosociology and Social Structure Analysis
Leibniz University Hannover

Leonie Wei�enborn, M.A.

Junior researcher
Leibniz University Hannover / Leibniz Center for Science and Society

"For the tenure-track professorship to be a success, we need to know how to implement it and what needs to be improved."

Prof. Natalia Danzer, Ph.D.

Professor for Empirical Economics and Gender
Freie Universit�t Berlin

"Participating in the survey is an important and welcome opportunity for me to contribute to research on academic careers in Germany in all their diversity. Only on a broad empirical basis can findings and facts be obtained, problems identified and, if necessary, reforms initiated."

Prof. Dr. Volker Epping

President of Leibniz University Hannover

"As a university lawyer and as a university manager, empirical findings are of essential importance in the classification and further development of the (not only legal) framework conditions."

Prof. Dr. Christiane Gross

Professor for Methods of Quantitative Empirical Social Research
Julius-Maximilians-Universit�t W�rzburg

"I would participate in the survey because we urgently need reliable information on academic careers in a longitudinal perspective and the DZHW survey team has the expertise to adequately collect this information with due diligence."

Prof. Dr. Julian Hamann

Junior professor for Higher Education Research
Humboldt-Universit�t zu Berlin

"Our knowledge about the career path of the professorship is very limited and often consists only of everyday knowledge. The DZHW Professors Panel makes an important contribution to changing this and to better understanding this important status group, especially in terms of its professional scope."

Prof. Dr. Lena Hipp

Professor for Social Structure Analysis
University of Potsdam / Berlin Social Science Center

Armin Sauermann, M.A.

Junior researcher
Berlin Social Science Center

"The Young Scientists Pact should make academic careers easier to plan and more transparent. To determine whether this succeeds, we need reliable data. That is why it is important to get a comprehensive picture of the various career paths to professorship."

Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans

Scientific managing director at
German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies

"Is tenure track a solution to the 'hazard' (Max Weber) of academic careers? This and more is what this new survey aims to investigate."