The Team

David Reimer

PRINICIPAL INVESTIGATOR - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

David Reimer

PRINICIPAL INVESTIGATOR - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

I am professor of sociology of education at the University of Iceland (since January 2023). I also hold a part-time position at Aarhus University. My research focuses on questions related to inequalities in educational attainment. I am particularly interested in educational transitions - such as the transition from upper secondary education to higher education or the transition from compulsory school to the subsequent schooling alternatives. In much of my research I have emphasized the importance of horizontal stratification in education (such as field of study choices or the choice of universities vs. university colleges). I am currently principal investigator for two major research projects: "EDUCHANGE, Changing Inequality at Educational Transitions" (ERC consolidator grant) and "Reducing Inequality in Access to Higher Education" (funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark).

Phone:+354 8598250
Email:reimer@hi.is

Eszter Czibor

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Eszter Czibor

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Eszter is an applied microeconomist interested in the economics of innovation and organisations. She uses laboratory and field experiments to evaluate incentive schemes and programmes. She holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago, and held senior research positions at policy consultancies and think tanks.

Email:eszter@hi.is

Kim Pawlinski

ERASMUS RESEARCH INTERN - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Kim Pawlinski

ERASMUS RESEARCH INTERN - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Kim Pawlinski is a Master's student in Behavioural Data Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and is particularly interested in survey methodology and quantitative sociology. As part of the Erasmus programme, she is currently working as a research intern on the EDUCHANGE project at the University of Iceland, where she is focusing on the measurement and evaluation of intervention effects using behavioural survey data.

Email:mka14@hi.is

Francisco Pablo Flores Taipe

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Francisco Pablo Flores Taipe

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

I am a development economist with a keen interest in Education, Inequality, and Gender economics. My research agenda focuses on understanding how formal or informal knowledge acquisition influences individuals' beliefs, preferences, and behavior. More specifically, I aim to study whether simple and scalable interventions developed to expand individuals’ human capital can reduce the prevalent disparities in social and economic dimensions and promote upward social mobility.

Email:franciscopflores@hi.is

Tamás Keller

SENIOR RESEARCHER - ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER

Tamás Keller

SENIOR RESEARCHER - ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER

Email:keller.tamas@tk.hu

Ólöf Ragna Einarsdóttirdóttir

RESEARCH ASSISTANT - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Ólöf Ragna Einarsdóttirdóttir

RESEARCH ASSISTANT - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Email:ore@hi.is

Ulrich Kohler

SENIOR RESEARCHER - UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM

Ulrich Kohler

SENIOR RESEARCHER - UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM

Ulrich Kohler is a methodologically minded sociologist with an interest in researching the causes and consequences of social inequality. He studied sociology, history and public law at the Universities of Konstanz and Mannheim. After completing his doctorate in Mannheim, he moved to the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB) in the ‘Inequality and Social Integration’ department. He has held the Potsdam professorship for methods of empirical social research since 2012.

Email:ukohler@uni-potsdam.de

Antal Ertl

POSTDOC RESEARCHER - ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER

Antal Ertl

POSTDOC RESEARCHER - ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER

Email:ertl.antal@krtk.hun

ASSOCIATED RESEACHERS

Markus Mansfeld

POSTDOCTORAL RESEACHER - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Markus Mansfeld

POSTDOCTORAL RESEACHER - UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland. I obtained my Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Leipzig and earned my PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen. As a sociologist, I employ quantitative analysis to identify the underlying causes of educational inequalities. My research focuses on the challenges of educational upward mobility in stratified education systems. In particular, I am interested in educational transitions, such as the transition from lower to upper secondary education or the transition to higher education and the subsequent educational attainment of upwardly mobile students.

Email:mkohlmeier@hi.is

Heiður Hrund Jónsdóttir

FORMER PROJECT MANAGER - THE NATIONAL AGENCY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, ICELAND

Heiður Hrund Jónsdóttir

FORMER PROJECT MANAGER - THE NATIONAL AGENCY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, ICELAND

Phone:+354 8967361
Email:heidur.h.jonsdottir@bofs.is

Lenette Møller Jensen

FORMER RESEARCH ASSISTANT - AARHUS UNIVERSITY

Lenette Møller Jensen

FORMER RESEARCH ASSISTANT - AARHUS UNIVERSITY

I am a research assistant at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University (since August 2022). The past years I’ve assisted researchers focusing on inequality in education both in domestic projects and in international large-scale assessments. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree of Education from VIA University College (2020) and a Master’s Degree of Arts in Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies from Aarhus University (2022) of which one semester was taken at the University of Oslo (2021).