Professor of Sociology
Bamberg University
Blossfeld has taught at and held visiting positions at several universities including Harvard and Cornell University, Nuffield College in Oxford, the University of Southampton, the Universities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, the Karl-Franzens University in Graz and the University of Vienna. He has also held visiting positions at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, the Université de Genève, the Universities of Utrecht, Nijmegen, and Groningen, the Universities of Trento and Torino, the Université de Montréal, and the State University in St. Petersburg. Blossfeld has published 44 books and over 300 articles on life course research, social inequality, youth, family, educational sociology, labor market research, demography, social stratification and mobility, the modern methods of quantitative social research, and statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis