Sylke Viola Schnepf (Ph.D.) is a senior policy advisor in the Science for Modelling, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. She is part of the Survey Methods and Analysis Centre (SMAC) team conducting research on survey design, fairness and loneliness. She also contributes to the Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation through research, teaching and advisory activities on quantitative education policy evaluation. Before joining the JRC in 2014, she was an associate professor in social statistics at the University of Southampton, UK. Sylke has a long publication record on patterns of cross-national educational inequalities and counterfactual impact evaluation of policies aimed at mitigating these inequalities.

Sylke joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in August 2004 and became a Research Fellow in February 2007