Prof. Christian Imdorf graduated from the Swiss University of Fribourg with a dual (academic and professional) degree in social work in the year 2000 where he also received his Ph.D. in educational research in 2005. From 2006 to 2009 Prof. Imdorf conducted postdoctoral studies on employer discrimination in hiring at the Goethe University Frankfurt, at the Institute of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology (LEST) in Aix-en-Provence and at the University of Glasgow. This research later resulted in his postdoctoral lecture qualification in Sociology (Habilitation) at the University of Basel in 2016.
After several years as an SNSF research professor in sociology at the Swiss universities of Basel and Bern (2011-2017) he taught social theory as an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2018. Since 2019, he has been a full professor for the Sociology of Education at Leibniz University Hannover. Currently, he is also the ProSkills2Work ERA-Chair Holder at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in Sofia.
Prof. Imdorf’s recent research is on education systems and gendered educational trajectories, vocational pathways to higher education, education and conventions, discrimination in hiring and diversity recruiting, and school-to-work transitions in Bulgaria.
