Nicole Mayer-Ahuja

Work sociologist and professor at Georg August University in Göttingen. After studying history, political science and Semitic studies in Heidelberg and London, she earned her doctorate in Göttingen with a thesis on the shift from standard West German employment relationships to precarious forms of employment. Her postdoctoral thesis focused on transnational corporate activities and their consequences for work.

In her research, Mayer-Ahuja has been investigating the transformation of working environments after the boom for many years. She leads projects on the use of digital secondary analyses of sociological data on work and deals with precarious and informal forms of employment, for example in the context of migration and the integration of refugees into companies. In doing so, she analyses the interplay between work processes, employment relationships and state regulation.

After working at the Sociological Research Institute Göttingen (SOFI) and as a professor in Hamburg, Mayer-Ahuja returned to Göttingen in 2014, where she has since held the professorship for Sociology of Work, Business and Economy. She has been director of SOFI several times, a member of the Lower Saxony Digital Council and a fellow at the international research group re:work. She is also involved as a liaison lecturer, expert witness and scientific advisor.