Keynote Speakers

Partnership development and dynamics: Evidence from pairfam

Franz J. Neyer is Professor for Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. His research areas cover personality development in adulthood; interpersonal dynamics in partnership, friendship and family relationships; loneliness and solitude; residential mobility and international sojourning.

Sonja Drobnič

Fertility and reproductive behavior: Evidence from pairfam

Sonja Drobnič is Professor at the University of Bremen and the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). She did her academic training in Slovenia and the United States. Her research interests include quality of life, work-life balance, family dynamics and family policy as well as topics on social stratification, household, gender and life course research. She is an elected fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.

 

 

Sabine Walper

Parenting & child well-being: Evidence from pairfam

Sabine Walper is a German psychologist, director of the German Youth Institute and professor of pedagogy at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. She is member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Issues at the Federal Ministry of Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

 

 

Bernhard Nauck

International perspectives on family research

Bernhard Nauck was thewas the founding professor of the Department of Sociology at Chemnitz University of Technology from 1992 to 2010, and served thereafter as the Director of the Research Group on Family and Migration Studies in this department until 2020. He was President of the Board of Trusties of German Social Science Infrastructure (GESIS) and member of the Board of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BIB). Since 2016 he is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Intercultural and Comparative Educational Sciences of the University of Hamburg. He held positions as Visiting Professor at numerous institutions including Toronto, Taiwan, Delaware and Los Angeles. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Population Research.

 

 

Karsten Hank

Intergenerational relationships: Evidence from pairfam

Karsten Hank is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne and Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin. He studied Social Sciences at Ruhr-University Bochum, was a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, and Head of the Research Unit “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe” at the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging. Hank was a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and an International Research Fellow at VU Amsterdam. He is Co-PI of the German Family Panel (pairfam) and the Family Research and Demographic Analysis (FReDA) project.

 

 

Josef Brüderl

Methodological insights from 14 years of pairfam

Josef Brüderl is Professor of Sociology at LMU Munich. His focus lies on quantitative research on inequality and families. With his chair, he follows the scientific understanding of empirical-analytical sociology. Before coming to Munich, Josef Brüderl was Professor for Statistics and Social Research Methods at the University of Mannheim.