Interview, April 2024
Conversation
with Tobias Rettig, Research Data Center, Mannheim University Library: German Internet Panel (April 2024)
Dr. Tobias Rettig coordinates the day-to-day operations of the German Internet Panel (GIP), the longest-running probability online panel of the German population, at the university library’s research data center. He joined the GIP as a PhD candidate in 2018. At this time, the GIP was part of the collaborative research center 884 “Political Economy of Reforms” funded by the German Research Foundation at the University of Mannheim, where he earned his PhD in sociology. Prior to that, Tobias earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology at the FSU Jena and a master’s in sociology and social research with a focus on social integration and methodological research at the University of Bremen.