Ralph Grossmann is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Excellence Cluster ROOTS at Kiel University and he is a member of the Subcluster Social Inequality. From March to August 2020, he held a position as a deputy scientific coordinator of the Excellence Cluster ROOTS. He was a member of the Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes' from 2010 to 2018 and obtained his doctoral degree in philosophy in 2016 at Kiel University with an analysis on Corded Ware and Bell Beaker burials in the German Rhine and Saale regions.