Prof. Dr. Jörg-Peter Schräpler

Curriculum Vitae / Academic career

10/2015 - 09/2017: Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
10/2013 - 09/2015: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
10/2012 - 12/2022: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (WBK) of the Research Data Centers (FDZ) of the Federal and State Statistical Offices
since 01/2012: Deputy Managing Director / Board Member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZEFIR)
since 04/2011: W3 Professorship for Social Science Data Analysis, Ruhr University Bochum
since 01/2011: Research Fellow, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
12/2010 - 12/2011: Member of the working group Georeferencing of Data (Geodata) at the German Data Forum (RatSWD)

05/2009 - 03/2011
Consultant and Head of Department “School Statistics”, Information and Technology NRW

01/2006 - 04/2009: Consultant, State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW (later Information and Technology NRW), Research Unit “Social and Economic Statistical Analyses”
06/2005 - 03/2011: Private lecturer at the Chair of “Empirical Social Research”, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum
06/2005: Habilitation (venia legendi in “Methods of Empirical Social Research” and “Statistics”), Ruhr-University Bochum
11/2004 - 12/2005: Research assistant, State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW, Research Department “Social and Economic Statistical Analyses”
03/2003 - 12/2010: Permanent Visiting Fellow, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
03/2003 - 05/2003: ECASS- Fellow at the “Institute for Social and Economic Research” (ISER), University Essex (Colchester, UK)
2002: Award for one of the three best presentations at the “5th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference 2002” (GSOEP2002), Berlin
05/2002 - 09/2002: DFG Fellowship (DFG Az. SCHR 739/1-1) and Research Fellow at the “Joint Program in Survey Methodology” (JPSM), University Maryland (UMD, USA)
06/2001: ECASS- Fellow at the “Institute for Social and Economic Research” (ISER), University Essex (Colchester, UK)
2001: Fellowship of the European Center for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS): Respondent behavior in the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
03/2001: Visiting Scientist at the Department of Sociology, Clemson University (SC, USA)
11/1999 - 11/2004: Research Assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Methodology and Statistics
1999: Dr. rer. soc. (Doctor of Social Science, summa cum laude), Ruhr-University Bochum
04/1995 - 04/1999: Research assistant at the chair “Mathematical and Empirical Methods in the Social Sciences”, chair of Prof. Manfred Tiede, Ruhr-University Bochum
1995: University Prize for the best thesis at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr-University Bochum
1995: Diploma in Social Sciences (Dipl.-Soz., with distinction), Ruhr-University Bochum
1988 - 1995: Study of Social Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum
1985 - 1988: Project engineer at DCE Deutschland GmbH, Düsseldorf
1984 - 1985: Dipl.-Ing. at Finger & Pelz, Essen
1984: Graduate engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) GHS Essen
1981 - 1984: Studies “Electrical Power Engineering” at the GHS Essen
05/1961: Born in Essen