Editors

About the Editor

Flavia Fossati is assistant professor for Inequality and Integration Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Zurich. Prior to joining the university of Lausanne, she worked as an assistant professor at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is affiliated with the Swiss national center of expertise in life course research (NCCR LIVES) and the Swiss national center for competence in research (nccr –on the move). Her research interests include analyzing the determinants of a successful labor market integration of immigrants in Western countries, mainly by means of survey experiments, and studying public attitudes towards different welfare schemes. Recently her work has been focused on studying welfare state deservingness perceptions in crisis times.

 

Andreas Ihle received his MSc in Psychology in 2010 from the University of Dresden, Germany, and his PhD in Psychology in 2013 from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, he is a senior researcher at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV). His research focuses on explaining the enormous inter- and intraindividual differences in cognitive functioning, health, and well-being in old age, with an emphasis on activity engagement and vulnerabilisation across the life course.

 

Jean-Marie Le Goff is a senior researcher in social demography at the Life course and Inequality Research Center at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and is an associate researcher at the Swiss LIVES Center. His research interests are in life course transitions. He developed research on the transition from school to employment, union formation, transition to parenthood, parenting, and retirement, in different Western countries contexts (Switzerland, France, Germany). He also developed interests in inequality and cumulative advantages/disadvantages during the life course. His researches are based on both quantitative and qualitative longitudinal approaches of the life course.

 

Núria Sánchez-Mira is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She holds a PhD in Sociology by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and she was previously a Junior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences and LIVES Center, University of Lausanne. Her research interests are in the field of gender inequalities in work and employment, family diversity and comparative research. Recently her work has been focused on the temporal embeddedness of human agency within a life course perspective.

 

Matthias Studer is associate professor of quantitative methods for social sciences at the Institute of Demographics and Socioeconomics of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and affiliated to the LIVES centre. His research interests include longitudinal methods and, more specifically, sequence analysis and holistic methods for life-course analysis. He is a developer of the TraMineR and WeightedCluster R libraries. Aside from methodological developments, his research interests include labor market studies, school-to-work transitions and family trajectories.