Nadia Steiber is Professor of Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS). She also serves as Scientific Lead of the Register Data Lab at the University of Vienna and as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of employment and family research and include the implications of life-course events.

Anna is Professor in Population Studies at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University. Her research interests concern processes at the intersection of labour market, family as well as health and well-being of family members. Currently she also leads the project "The effects of unemployment on health of family members" (HEALFAM) financed by the ERC Starting Grant.

Erich is Associate Professor at the Department of Demography at the University of Vienna. Erich’s work is focusing on the development of multidimensional population projections, as well as their application in questions related to social transformation processes resulting from the demographic metabolism. The range of topics that he has been studying in this framework range from attitudes toward migration to European identity and pro-environmental behaviour.

Bernd is an administrative assistant at the Department of Sociology and data manager at the Data Centre. He obtained his MA in Sociology at the University of Vienna (2024) and holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy (2013). His research focuses on poverty, inequality in the labour market and migration.

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.

Erika is  Associate Professor at the department of Geography and affiliated to the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University. Her research is focusing on how social and geographical conditions cause different prerequisites and needs for long-distance commuting and social consequences related to long-distance commuting, in terms of gender differences in commuting patterns and earnings, separations and health consequences of commuting.

Christina is a post doc researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She obtained a PhD 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.

Laura is a senior scientist at the Faculty of Social Science since August 2026. She worked as a researcher at the Department of Sociology (2023-2026), at the University of Graz (2018-2023), and at WU Vienna (2020-2021). She received her PhD in Environmental Systems Science from the University of Graz in 2021. Her research focuses on labour market analysis, the impact of digital transformation, digital inequality and quantitative methods.