Christian Imdorf#
| Membership Number: | 7375 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BULGARIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://proskills2work.eu/en/ https://www.ish.uni-hannover.de/imdorf |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8015-977X |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-imdorf-bb601b135/ |
| Publication Link: | https://www.fis.uni-hannover.de/portal/en/researchers/christian-imdorf(acb30c78-3cad-4a12-ae12-a48c52059143).html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - present ProSkills2Work ERA-Chair Holder, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
- 2019 - present Full Professorship in Sociology of Education, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
- 2018 Associate Professor in Sociology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Norway
- 2015 - 2017 SNSF Professorship in Sociology (Research Professorship), University of Bern, Switzerland
- 2011 - 2015 SNSF Professorship in Sociology (Research Professorship), University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2010 - 2011 Assistant lecturer & Co-investigator TREE, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2000 - 2006 Research assistant, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology of conventions
- Gender segregation in education
- Research on Vocational Education and Training
- International comparisons
- Education to work transitions
- Youth studies
- Sociologies of education
- Discrimination studies
- Sociology of work
Honours and Awards
- 2025 ProSkills2Work ERA Chair
- 2011 SNSF Professorship (Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship)
