Dr. Katja Salomo

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since August 2024

Research Associate "Organized Civil Society and Right-Wing Interventions" Department of Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany at the University of Kassel & Center for Civil Society at the Berlin Social Science Center

October 2023 - March 2024

Dahrendorf Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford

January 2021 - July 2024

Research Associate "Mobility and Social Inequality", bridging project between the President's Research Group and the Digital Mobility and Social Differentiation Research Group/WZB

July 2021

PhD Dr. phil./Sociology, FSU Jena, Dissertation: "Mechanisms of Resentment. Causes of Social Intolerance and Anti-Democratic Attitudes in Europe"

January 2020 - December 2020

Research Associate "Participation, Social Segregation and Neighborhood Structure", Research Group of the President/WZB

September 2019 - December 2019

Research Associate "Second Thuringian Social Structure Atlas", Institute for Municipal Planning Erfurt

September 2019 - December 2019

Visiting researcher, Research Group of the President/WZB

February 2019 - August 2019

Research Assistant "Urban Poverty Segregation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania", Research Group of the President/WZB

July 2016 - July 2019

Lecturer "Basic module: Univariate Statistics" and "Advanced Module: Factor and Cluster Analysis" as part of the annual methods seminar of GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

April 2013 - December 2015

Freelancer "Elite stability and democratic consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe", Institute for Political Science/FU Berlin

April 2013 - March 2014

Research assistant "Political Milieus in Thuringia", Institute of Sociology/FSU Jena

August 2012 - February 2019

Research assistant, Chair of Methods of Empirical Social Research and Social Structure Analysis, Institute of Sociology/FSU Jena

Sarah George, Katja Salomo & Theresa Pfaff (2025): Socio-spatial inequalities in urban mobility: the immigrant-native travel time gap in German cities - a mixed method study. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, pp. 1-25. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2492346

Sarah George, Katja Salomo & Marcel Helbig (2024): Spatial advantages of highly educated individuals in Germany: Is sustainable mobility an expression of privilege? Cities. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2024.105507

Katja Salomo, Marcel Helbig & Susanne Marquardt (2023): Radical right-wing support among urban voters in Germany. Journal of Urban Affairs: 1-18. doi:10.1080/ 07352166.2023.2224020

Katja Salomo (2021): Outmigration, ageing, female decline. The influence of demographic change on political culture in East Germany. In: Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Frank Ebert and Holger Kulick (eds.): (East) Germany's way. Bonn: BpB (Publication series vol. 10676): 63-80. ISSN: 2190-9245

Marcel Helbig & Katja Salomo (2021): One city - separate worlds? Socio-spatial inequalities for children in seven major German cities. Berlin: Heinrich Böll Foundation (Schriften zu Wirtschaft und Soziales, Volume 25). ISBN: 978-3-86928-230-5. Interactive map on socio-spatial inequalities here

Katja Salomo (2019) The residential context as source of deprivation: Impacts on the local political culture. Political Geography 69:103-17. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.07.001

Interview: bento

"Too few women, too few young people: why the East has become so radical"

What demographic change has to do with political culture in rural areas (11.09.2019)

Interview: Phoenix

Phoenix on location from Sept. 22, 2024 (excerpt)

Interview and clip about the consequences of regional inequality in eastern Germany for the state elections.

Interview: WDR Morgenecho

"Is demography changing politics in the East?"

Political consequences of the demographic upheavals in eastern Germany and why regional funding needs to be reformed (21.09.2024)