Birgit Pfau-Effinger

Birgit Pfau-Effinger (born February 7, 1953 ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Pfau-Effinger graduated in 1978 from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with a degree in social economics. She did her PhD (1987) and her habilitation (1998) at the University of Bremen . In 1999 she was appointed professor of sociology (social structure analysis and welfare state development) at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences .

From 2000 she held a C3 professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , from 2003 a C4 professorship at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg . She is Deputy Managing Director of the institute and since 2004 Co-Director of the Center for Globalization and Governance (CGG). In 2008 she was appointed to the Senate Commission of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the special research areas. She was visiting professor at the University of Tampere (Finland) in 1992, the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2006 and the Ålborg Universitetscenter in 2007/2008. Since 2011 she has been the scientific coordinator of the Group for Society and Animals Studies (GSA) at the University of Hamburg, the first social science research group on the human-animal relationship in Germany.

Her work focuses on international comparative sociology, labor market sociology, sociology of social policy, the cultural and welfare state, formal and informal work, gender arrangements, family sociology and family policy analysis.

Publications

Pfau-Effinger published (as of 2009) more than 90 scientific articles in German and English-speaking countries and 14 books.

Web links

• Literature by and about Birgit Pfau-Effinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Birgit Pfau-Effinger on the website of the University of Hamburg (with curriculum vitae and list of publications )
• Birgit Pfau-Effinger in the AcademiaNet database of renowned scientists