Uta Schönberg is a Professor of Economics at University College London, a Researcher at the Nuremberg Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Deputy Director of the Centre of Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). Her research is in applied microeconomics, with a special interest in wage inequality and wage dynamics; family economics; the economics of education; and the economics of migration. Her work has appeared in leading journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Political Economy. Uta is a two-times European Research Council (ERC) grant holder and was awarded the Philipp Leverhulme Prize in 2016 and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2021. She served as Joint Managing Editor at the Review of Economic Studies between 2016 and 2021.