Frank Kalter

Frank Kalter, Dr. phil., is Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim since 2009. He is also project leader at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), as well as director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in Berlin. He held a chair of sociology at the Institute of Sociology in Leipzig from 2004-2009. His main research interests center on migration, integration, discrimination, and racism. His teaching interests also include the foundations of sociological theory and the formal modeling of social processes. He was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the “Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU)”, Director of the MZES from 2014 to 2017, and served as President of the European Academy of Sociology from 2011 to 2015. Frank Kalter is a member of the German Science and Humanities Council (WR) since 2024.