Prof. Dr. Sabine Zinn

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.