Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kohler

since 10 2012 Professor of Methods of  Empirical Social Research at the University of Potsdam

since 2003(presently on leave until September 2014) Senior Researcher in the Research Unit "Inequality and Social Integration". Since April 2009 Management of the “Life Course Risks Project - The Economic Consequences of Key Life Risks in Germany and the US and Their Evolution since the 1980s”. October 2011 until September 2012 Managing Research Fellow of the unit.

2001 – 2003 Senior Researcher at the Chair of Methods of Empirical Social Research and Applied Sociology at the University of Mannheim

1996 – 2001 Researcher at the Chair of Methods of  Empirical Social Research and Applied Sociology at the University of Mannheim

08 2001 Dr. phil. at the University of Mannheim. Dissertation: Der demokratische Klassenkampf. Erklärungen, Simulation und Längsschnittanalysen zum Zusammenhang von Sozialstruktur und Wahlverhalten, 1st referee: Prof. Dr. Walter Müller, 2nd referee: Prof. Dr. Franz Urban Pappi (awarded with the Lorenz von Stein Prize 2002)

04 1996 M.A. in Sociology. Thesis: Individualisierung 1953-1992, 1st referee: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Esser; 2nd referee: Prof. Dr. Walter Müller

1992 – 1996 Studies in Sociology, Economic and Social History/Newer History and Law at the University of Mannheim

1989 – 1992 Studies in Sociology, History and Law at the University of Konstanz