Thorsten Schneider

Thorsten Schneider, Dr. rer. phil., is a junior professor for Sociology, with a special focus on educational inequality in the life course at the University of Bamberg. Thorsten Schneider was born in Simmern, Germany (1973). He studied  Sociology with minors in Economics and History at the University of Bremen and graduated in 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he worked as a research scientist at the department “German Socio-Economic Panel-Study (SOEP)” of the DIW Berlin. Along the way, he spent three months as a visiting scientist at the European Centre for Analysis in Social Sciences (ECASS), University of Essex, UK. Schneider has received his doctoral degree in Sociology for his dissertation on social origin and educational participation from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in the end of 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he worked as a research scientist at the University of Bamberg and was involved in coordinating and writing the proposal for the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Currently, his main focus in the NEPS is on educational inequalities at pre-school and primary school age. His general work interests are in the fields of social and ethnic inequalities in educational opportunities, ethnic minorities, and longitudinal research methods. Several articles of Schneider were published in peer-reviewed journals such as European Sociological Review, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, and Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik.