Biography

ELENA MAKAROVA received her PhD and her Venia Docendi at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Makarova worked on number of research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and was the SNSF research fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Currently she has a position as a Professor of Educational Sciences and Head of the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of Basel. Her main research interests are acculturation and adjustment of minority youth, school dropout, value transmission in the family and school context, and gender and career choice.