Consortium & Advisory Board Members

Dirk Hofacker

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2. Researcher at State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg
3. Heinrichsdamm 4
   Bamberg 96047
   Germany
4. +49 (0)9 51/9 65 25 - 17
   +49 (0)9 51/9 65 25 - 29 (fax)
   email
   
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6. Dirk Hofäcker, Dr. rer. pol., born in Witten, Germany (1974), studied sociology and political economics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. During his years of study, he spent a research term in 1997 at the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia, financially supported by a TEMPUS/TACIS scholarship.
   
   After joining the market and opinion research institute IPSOS Deutschland, Hamburg as a Junior Research Executive, he worked as a researcher within the project "Globalife - Life Courses in the Globalization Process" from 2002 to 2006, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. His dissertation, finished in September 2008, focused on the description and explanation of retirement processes under globalization in an international perspective.
   
   Since 2006, Dirk has been both a researcher at the Institute for Family Research at Bamberg University (ifb) and a Coordinator of the Research Network "TransEurope - Transnationalisation and Changing Life Course Inequality in Europe", funded by the European Science Foundation.
   
   Dirk undertook research visits to various research centers in Europe, including Statistics Denmark (Aarhus, DK), the Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvreté et de Politiques Socio-Economiques (CEPS Differdange, Luxembourg) and Middlesex University Business School (London, UK).
   
   His major research interests include the comparative analyses of welfare states, their effects on social structure, families and labor markets and quantitative multivariate methods of social science data analysis.