Anna Zaharieva is an Associate Professor (tenure-track) at the University of Bielefeld. She obtained her PhD from Konstanz University in October 2010. She is a co-speaker of the Leibniz Science Campus SOEPRegioHub at Bielefeld University and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB Nuremberg). Her areas of research are labour economics, migration, search and matching theory, gender and education economics. Her research was published in the International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Labour Economics and others.