Karl Ulrich Mayer elected new president of the Leibniz Association

Karl Ulrich Mayer will take office as the new president of the Leibniz Association, replacing current president Ernst Th. Rietschel on July 1, 2010. Mayer, a longtime friend and supporter of the SOEP study, is currently Stanley B. Resor Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Yale University (USA). Prior to accepting his appointment at Yale in 2005, he spent many years as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, heading the ResearchCenter for Education, Work, and Social Development. His quantitative analyses of the life course, of educational and work careers, living and family histories, have always examined these phenomena in the context of social change. He served on the advisory board of SOEP respectively the advisory board of the DIW Berlin for about 20 years.