Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM)


Dr. Christian Hunkler

chunkler@diw.de

 

 

Christian Hunkler is no longer working at BIM. He used to be Scientific spokesperson of the Research Network on Discrimination and Racism (FoDiRa), and Member of the Departments  Labor Market, Migration and Integration, and Education and Integration.

 

Mail: chunkler@diw.de

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Profile

 

Christian Hunkler studied social sciences and marketing in Mannheim, Utrecht, and Bloomington. He earned his doctoral degree in sociology from Mannheim University with a thesis on ethnic inequality in access to dual vocational education.

After his dissertation, he worked for the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich
and Konstanz University, and at DeZIM. At BIM, he worked in the departments Labor Market, Migration
and Integration as well as Education and Integration.

His research at BIM focused on integration, especially the integration of refugees in Germany, ethnic
and gender inequality in the labor market and the use of process-generated data (“Big Data”) for social scientific research, e.g., the relationship between age and productivity.

   

Professional Career

 

  • 01.2025 - present
    Acting Division Head Survey Methodology & Management, Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW
  • 10.2019 – 12.2024
    Senior Researcher at Humboldt University, Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research
  • 01.2019 – 10.2019
    Senior Researcher at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM)
  • 01.2019 – present
    External Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
  • 10.2015 – 12.2018
    Head of the research department Macro Implications of Demographic Change at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
  • 10.2016 – 3.2017
    Visiting Professor substituting for Prof. Claudia Diehl (Chair for Microsociology) at Konstanz University
  • 2011 – 2015
    Senior Researcher at Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
  • 2009 – 2011
    Researcher at Mannheim Research Institute f. the Economics of Aging (MEA)
  • 2007 – 2011
    Assistant Lecturer at the Chair for Sociology, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Esser /
    Prof. Dr. Frank Kalter, University of Mannheim

 

Education

 

  • 2013
    Doctoral Degree in Sociology, summa cum laude, University of Mannheim

 

Publications

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