Christina Vonnahme has been researcher in the RWI department "Labor Markets, Education, Population" since April 2015. Since June 2024, she is team lead of the junior research group "Green Transformation, Labor Markets, Vocational and Further Training", a joint project of RWI and IAB in cooperation with the HdBA. Before, she already worked as a postdoc in the department, and as a doctoral researcher in the research group “Migration and Integration”. Since September 2025, Christina Vonnahme is professor of economics at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen. 
In April 2021, she received her PhD in Economics from Ruhr University Bochum under the supervision of Thomas Bauer and Christina Gathmann. She completed her Master in Economics Heidelberg University and her Bachelor in International Economics at University of Tübingen.
Research Interests: Labor economics, ecological transformation of the labor market, education economics, migration economics, applied microeconometrics.