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Professor Dr Karl Mayer FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2000
Honours
Honorary Senator, University of Tübingen
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/de/mitarbeiter/karl-ulrich-mayer

Current post

Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Stanley B Resor Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute; Visiting Professor New York University at Abu Dhabi

Past appointments

\N Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Co-Director Cener for Research on Inequalities and the LifeCourseIQLE),

2003 - 2010

Unknown Unknown Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin;

1970 -

Leibniz-Association President, Leibniz-Association

1970 -

New York University at Abu Dhabi Visiting Professor, New York University at Abu Dhabi

1970 -

Publications

Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives Karl Ulrich Mayer and Heike Solga (eds.) (2008)

Das Bildungswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( Report on the State of Education in Germany) Kai S. Cortina, Juergen Baumert, Achim Lechinsky, Karl Ulrich Mayer and Luitgard Trommer (eds.) (2008)

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