about

Hi, I am Jonas.

I am a quantitative sociologist. My research interests cover social stratification, social mobility, and the integration of immigrants and their children. I analyze these questions using advanced statistical techniques. I am the principal investigator of the project Unequal Trajectories (UneTra), which examines the interplay of residential mobility and integration of among refugees in Germany. UneTra is funded by the Leibniz foundation under its SAW competition program. I have been a postdoctoral fellow at the department for migration and diversity at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center since March 2020. I spent the summer term 2023 as a visiting full professor at the University of Münster teaching courses on social stratification, migration, and philosophy of (social) science. After graduating with a Master of Arts from the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt-University Berlin, I pursued a doctorate at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at Cologne University under the supervision of Merlin Schaeffer and Marita Jacob. I defended my dissertation “Against the odds. Education-to-job mismatches and less-educated workers’ pathways into success” with the final grade summa cum laude. At different points, I have been a visiting student/researcher at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the CUNY Graduate Center, the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Essex University, and the Department of Sociology at Copenhagen University.
I love Stata, am fluent in R, and have started to explore Python.
I am a regular reviewer for journals such as the German Journal of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies (Z’Flucht), Journal of Labour Market Research (JLMR), Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM), Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI), European Societies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), International Migration Review (IMR), The Economic Journal and Social Forces (SF).