Goethe University
Markus Gangl is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, and Honorary Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He works on issues in social stratification, economic inequality, poverty, income dynamics, social mobility, labor markets and careers. A second line of his work is directed at improving statistical methods for the analysis of social science data, including panel, event history, and multilevel data, and the methodology of causal inference in the social sciences. Markus Gangl has published his research in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Demography, European Sociological Review and Sociological Methodology, among others, and has co-edited a volume on Transitions from education to work in Europe (Oxford University Press, with Walter Müller). Markus Gangl is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and has been the recipient of the 2016 Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research (with Andrea Ziefle). He is a member of the Steering Board for the interdisciplinary DFG Priority Program 1764 “The German Labor Market in a Globalized World”, an elected Board member of the ISA Research Committee 28 (Social stratification and mobility), a founding member of the German Academy of Sociology, and the current Editor-in-Chief of the European Sociological Review. Among his many projects, Markus Gangl also is the principal investigator in the ERC-funded POLAR project, which investigates the societal impact of rising economic inequality in affluent countries.