Ute Klammer is a full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Faculty of Social Sciences, and has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ) since 2016. Since May 2021, she has also been Director of the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS), a joint academic institution of the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Bremen, funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

From 2008 to 2015, Ute Klammer was Vice-Rector at UDE, responsible for diversity management and international affairs. Her research and publications focus on European and internationally comparative labour market and social policy (particularly family policy, old-age security, and labour market policy), gender studies, higher education research, migration, poverty, and income distribution.

Ute Klammer has served, among other roles, as Chair of the Expert Commission for the First Gender Equality Report of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chair of the Federal Government’s Social Advisory Council, and member of the German Government’s Council for Sustainable Development.