Sören Tumeltshammer

Sören Tumeltshammer is a sociologist interested in how organizations shape social inequality, with a particular focus on gender, family, and the labor market. He is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (Fall 2026) and a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Groningen and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI).

His dissertation investigates how organizational policies and institutions influence gender inequality in the workplace, using corporate quota reforms as a policy setting. Drawing on linked employer-employee administrative data, he examines how the effects of these policies vary across organizations with different inequality regimes and among workers with different social characteristics, including migration background and parenthood. His research seeks to understand how social groups interact with organizational structures to shape labor market outcomes and the effectiveness of equality policies.

Previous degrees:

MA in Sociology, University of Bamberg

M.Res. in Sociology and Demography, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

BA in Sociology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Research interests: Economic sociology, organizations, gender inequality, work and family, social stratification, and quantitative methods.