She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2009, and her undergraduate degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany in 2001. She has worked as a research associate at the German Institute of Economic Research in Berlin, and has been a short term consultant for the World Bank. Julia Schwenkenberg is an applied microeconomist with a focus on topics that can generally be categorized under labor economics, development economics and related fields. At Rutgers, Newark she teaches labor economics (class and seminar) at the undergraduate level and development economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.