SOEP Director German Socio-Economic Panel study
Member of the Executive Board Executive Board
Prof. Dr. habil. Sabine Zinn is the head of the Socio-Economic Panel. She is a is a social scientist with expertise in Computational Social Science, focusing on migration, education, and health research. Prior to joining the SOEP (Socio-Economic Panel), she studied economic mathematics at the University of Jena and pursued her doctorate in statistical demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. She then worked as a statistician on the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) at the University of Bamberg, subsequently leading the Survey Statistical Methods department at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories in Bamberg. Sabine obtained her Ph.D. in "Modeling and Simulation" from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Rostock and earned her teaching qualifications in "Survey Statistics" and "Demography.
Sabine Zinn is involved in the DFG-funded Infrastructure Priority Programme New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences (InfPP 2431) through her work in the ENTAILab Measure "Build on and Develop Existing Panel Studies" and the project "CALVI". Further information is available at: https://www.new-data-spaces.de.