Ariane Bertogg

Dr. Ariane Bertogg is an Assistant Professor in Sociology of the Life Course with a Focus on Ageing and Health at the University of Konstanz, Department of Sociology, since May 2025. She also leads a DFG Emmy Noether-funded research project on Social Inequalities in Ageing Societies (SocIAS) at the University of Konstanz since April 2025. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University Konstanz and served as an interim professor at the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich during the academic year 2022/2023.

Dr. Bertogg received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Zurich in 2017. Her doctoral work focused on young adults' relationships with their parents, resulting in a monograph titled "Zwischen Autonomie und Verbundenheit. Junge Erwachsene und ihre Eltern" (Between Autonomy and Connectedness. Young Adults and Their Parents) published by Springer VS.

Dr. Bertogg's research spans multiple interconnected domains of sociological inquiry with a focus on life course trajectories, aging, and social inequalities. Her work examines how social policies, welfare states, and cultural contexts shape individual life decisions across the lifespan, particularly regarding work-family balance, caregiving, and health outcomes. She employs quantitative methods to analyze large-scale comparative datasets, often with a gender-sensitive and social stratification perspective. Her research has gained significant recognition, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when she investigated the differential impacts of the crisis on various population groups.

Analysis of Dr. Bertogg's publication record reveals strong thematic consistency centered around life course sociology, aging, and social inequalities, with a noticeable shift toward pandemic-related research from 2020-2024. Her work demonstrates methodological sophistication using longitudinal and comparative data across European contexts. The publications show increasing collaboration with international researchers and engagement with interdisciplinary questions at the intersection of sociology, gerontology, and social policy.

Dr. Bertogg has received prestigious recognition for her work, including:

• First winner of the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology's Excellence Prize (2024)
• Recipient of the Vontobel Preis für Alternsforschung (2024), awarded to promising young scholars in gerontology
• DFG Emmy Noether funding for her research project on Social Inequalities in Ageing Societies
• Stipends from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Arts for research visits to NCSU Raleigh and UMass Boston (Jan-Feb 2025)

Dr. Bertogg has successfully supervised numerous Bachelor's and Master's theses at the Universities of Konstanz and Zurich on topics including Job Choice Motives of Teachers, Generation and Identity among Italian Migrants, Migration and Early Career Success, Labour Market Discrimination, and Life Satisfaction in Old Age. She holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Higher Education Didactics with 12 ECTS credits. Her current research is supported by multiple grants, most notably her DFG Emmy Noether project and her role as Co-PI in the "Covid-19 Policies for Gender Equality (CoPE)" project at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz.

Dr. Bertogg collaborates extensively within the University of Konstanz's research ecosystem, particularly with the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" and the Zukunftskolleg. She is actively involved in international research networks, with recent collaborations spanning Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, the UK, the US, and Luxembourg. Her current work with the CoPE project involves researchers from seven institutions across four European countries, studying gender inequalities across five national contexts.