Life Course and Inequality Research Group
Team

Philipp M. Lersch

Philipp Lersch is Associate Professor of Sociology of Social Policy in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and research group leader at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His main research interests are in social inequalities over and between life courses of individuals in divergent institutional contexts focusing on the family, wealth, and...

Sascha dos Santos

Sascha dos Santos is a research associate in the "Life Course and Inequality" research group and the SOEP Research Infrastructure unit at DIW Berlin. His research focuses on life course dynamics related to wealth and the labour market. Methodologically, he employs modern causal inference and longitudinal data analysis techniques. Prior to joining DIW, he worked at the WZB Berlin Social Science...

Sophia Fauser

Sophia Fauser is a research associate in the WEALTHRAJECT research project and the “Life Course and Inequality” research group at DIW Berlin. Her research focuses on labor market outcomes and social inequality, applying methods of longitudinal data analysis. Before joining DIW, she worked in the Department of Microsociology at Humboldt University in Berlin. She completed her doctorate in Sociology...

Mathis Herpell

Bettina Hünteler

Bettina Hünteler is a research associate in the DECIPHE research project at DIW Berlin. Her research focuses on social inequality, such as wealth or health in the context of kinship and migration, with a particular emphasis on the life course approach. Methodologically, she uses advanced quantitative methods such as sequence and cluster analysis, and multi-level models. Before joining DIW, she...

Lisa Klein

Lisa Klein is a doctoral researcher in the DECIPHE research project and the "Life Course and Inequality" research group at DIW Berlin. Her research explores social stratification, wealth, and poverty through a life-course perspective. Before joining DIW, she worked on the INTERVERM project at Humboldt University Berlin, which examined the intergenerational reproduction of wealth inequality.