Yuliya Kosyakova, Dr., is post-doctorate Senior Researcher in the Migration and International Labour Studies department at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). She is also Associate Lecturer at the Chair of Sociology, area Societal Comparison at the University of Mannheim and at the Chair of Sociology, area Social Stratification at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg. She received her PhD in Sociology at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Her research revolves around the themes of labour markets, (refugee) migration and integration, international comparison, institutional change, gender, educational inequalities, and the life course. Her papers have been inter alia published in academic journals such as the European Sociological Review, Sociology of Education, Work, Employment and Society, the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, European Societies and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Yuliya joined CReAM as an External Research Fellow in October 2020.