Marcel is Senior Researcher at the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg and Deputy Managing Director of the Journal of Family Research. Previously, he worked as a research assistant at the National Educational Panel Study and the Professorship of Demography at the University of Bamberg, as a research fellow in the research group “Demography and Inequality” at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Assistant Professor for Sociology at the University of Mannheim. In 2011, he was a visiting predoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 2014, he obtained a doctorate in sociology at the University of Bamberg with his dissertation on “Family Effects on Family Formation.” Currently, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Sequence Analysis Association.
Emanuela is Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences. Between 2020 and 2021, she was guest Professor of Macrosociology at the Institute of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin and then guest Professor of Social Policy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2015 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the research group “Demography and Inequality” research group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. After obtaining her PhD in sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, in 2014 she worked as a research fellow at the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research “LIVES—Overcoming Vulnerability: A Life-Course Perspective” at the University of Lausanne. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Sequence Analysis Association.
Both authors regularly teach courses and workshops on sequence analysis and have conducted several studies using sequence analysis that have been published in Demography, European Journal of Population, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Sociological Methodology, Demographic Research, Advances in Life Course Research, and Social Indicators Research.
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