Barbara Boelmann is an applied labour economist and studies structural factors underlying inequalities on the labour market with a focus on gender inequalities. She is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, a YEP Fellow of ECONtribute, and a researcher at the Research Data Centre Ruhr of the RWI. In addition, she is affiliated with C-SEB and the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224. Barbara Boelmann has obtained her PhD from University College London and CReAM in 2022. She holds an MSc in Economics and a BA in Economics and Chinese Studies, both from the Ruhr-University of Bochum.