Welcome to the homepage of Alexander W. Schmidt
I am a social scientist at the University of Cologne. I studied sociology, social psychology and economics. Currently, I am working on my PhD-thesis which will be finished by the end of 2012. I am an associated member of the Research Training Group SOCLIFE which is funded by the German Science Foundation. SOCLIFE is an interdiscplinary graduate school which focusses on cross-national research, particularly, on multilevel analysis. I am a research associate at the Chair for Empirical Social and Economic Research where I teach advanced multivariate statistics and survey methodology.
Please feel free to inform yourself, download my papers or contact me for more information.
Research Interests
- Social Mobility
- Social Inequality
- Income Poverty
- Welfare Attitudes
- Cross-cultural Psychology
- Methodology
Memberships
Research Training Group SOCLIFE 
Cologne Graduate School
European Survey Research Association 
Social Science Research Network