Prof. Dr. Katja Rost, born in 1976, has been a full professor of sociology at the University of Zurich since 2012. She studied sociology at the University of Leipzig, completed her PhD in management at the TU Berlin and her Habilitation at the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology at the University of Zurich. She was an assistant professor for organizational sociology at the University of Mannheim and a full professor for management at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Her area of research is economic and organizational sociology.