Nadia is Professor of Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS). She is affiliated with the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. Her main areas of research are at the intersection of employment and family research.

Rudolf is Professor of Labor Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Linz and Fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and the Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. His research focuses on labour economics and the evaluation of economic and social policy.

Lara is a postdoc at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University, Italy (2012). From 2012 to 2014 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and from 2017 to 2022 at the Institute of Economic Sciences, Serbia. Her research covers topics related to human capital, labour economics and family economics.

Sandrine is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and has previously earned an MSc degree in Statistics and Applied Economics from the ENSAI Graduate School, France. Her doctoral research examines gender inequalities in mental health over the life course, focusing particularly on the consequences of parenthood transitions.

Christina is a prae doc researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She obtained a MA in Sociology at the University of Vienna and previously held positions at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Statistics Austria. Her research interests lie at the intersection of poverty, employment and family research, with a strong focus on gender inequality.

Alessandra is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Messina. In 2016, she obtained a PhD in Demography jointly granted by Sapienza University of Rome and the Catholic University of Leuven. She works on the association between partners’ socio-economic resources and reproductive behaviour across European contexts and on the links between demographic behaviour and the reproduction of educational inequalities.

Manuel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department since 2025. He holds a PhD in Soziology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2021). From 2021 to 2024 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid. His research covers topics related to education, social mobility and social stratification.