Jutta Allmendinger: Former President of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). She was a Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at LMU Munich, Director of the Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency in Germany, and Chair of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council.
Andrea Bührmann: Professor of Sociology of Diversity and Director of the Institute of Diversity Research at the Georg August University Göttingen. She is the author of numerous research- and practice-oriented publications. Her work is regularly featured in national media.
Frank Dobbin: Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. His Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't with Alexandra Kalev looks at the effectiveness of dozens of different diversity programs. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Radcliffe Institute, the Safra Center for Ethics, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
Andreas Ette: Research group leader at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB). His research focuses on the individual consequences of international migration for labor market participation. At BiB, he is responsible for the "Diversity and Equal Opportunities Survey," a key employee survey conducted within federal administration organizations.
Naika Foroutan: Director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) and professor of integration research and social policy at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she is head of department at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM). Her research interests include the transformation of immigration countries into post-migrant societies, Islam and minority policies, and radicalization, racism and Islamism.
Leonie Fuchs: social scientist and a research associate at the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa). Her research focuses on social inequalities, their impact on political behavior and attitudes, as well as quantitative methods.
Annett Gräfe-Geusch: Postdoctoral researcher at Consensus and Conflict Department (DeZIM) and at the Helmut-Schmidt University with research focus on diversity, organizations, and education.
Tae Jun Kim: sociologist and a research associate at the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa). His research deals with stigma, discrimination, racism, and anti-racism. A particular focus lies on how racism can be empirically captured and analyzed using quantitative methods.
Magdalena Nowicka: honorary professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt University and head of the Integration Department at DeZIM. Her research and teaching interests include topics such as transnational migration in Europe, cosmopolitanism and conviviality, social inequalities, diversity, racism, and qualitative research methods.
Friederike Römer: Co-Head of Consensus and Conflict Department (DeZIM) and sociologist, working on the intersection of policy studies, migration research and comparative welfare state research.
Karen Schönwälder: Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity and professor at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Her research focuses on societal responses to diversity, the presence of migrants in politics, and strategies for shaping heterogeneous societies.
Susanne Veit: Head of the DeZIM.lab for experimental research and Co-Head of the Cluster Data-Method-Monitoring and Data Research Centre (DeZIM.fdz). Her research focuses on experiments on stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and implicit bias from a socio-psychological perspective.
Martin Weinmann: Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) with research focus on citizenship and diversity in organizations. At BiB, he is particularly responsible for the "Diversity and Equal Opportunities Survey," a key employee survey conducted within federal administration organizations.
Ruta Yemane: Studied Psychology and Political Science and earned her PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin with a dissertation titled "What drives hiring discrimination? The role of ethnicity, race, religion, and gender." Before joining the DeZIM Institute, she worked, among others, at the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in the "Migration, Integration, Transnationalization" department.
Sabrina Zajak: Head of Consensus and Conflict Department and associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum, engaged in various projects in the field of civil society, political participation, diversity, and discrimination
