Melanie Arntz

Melanie Arntz has been Vice Director of the IAB (Institute for Employment Research) and Professor of Labor Market and Occupational Research at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg since January 2025. She studied geography and economics at the University of Bonn and the University of Minnesota (USA) before receiving her doctorate in empirical economics from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2007. From 2002, she was also a research associate at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, where she served as Deputy Head of the “Labor Markets and Social Security” research unit between 2009 and 2024. In 2009, she became a Junior Professor, and in 2018, Professor of Labor Markets at Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on the structural transformation of the labor market, particularly in the context of technological progress.