Alexandra Spitz-Oener is a Professor of Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, the Deputy Director of RFBerlin, and a Research Associate at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg. In addition, she is the Deputy Spokesperson of the Research Unit “Labor Market Transformation: Scarcity, Skill Mismatch, and Policy" and a Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Research Center/TransRegio “Rationality and Competition,” both funded by the German Sciences Foundation.

Her research interests are in Applied Microeconomics, in particular Labor Economics. Her research focuses on understanding the challenges for workers brought about by technological changes, trade, and immigration.