Anette Fasang

Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang is a full-time Professor of Microsociology at the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University in Berlin. She serves as Director of the Department and Principal Investigator for the Research Unit Temporality at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS). Her research focuses on demography, family dynamics, life course analysis, and quantitative methods.

• Education: PhD in Sociology (Jacobs University Bremen), MA/BA in Sociology (LMU Munich)

Her research interests span life course-sensitive analysis of social inequality, work-family trajectories, sequence analysis methodologies, and comparative social policy across Germany, Israel, Italy, and the US. Recent publications examine temporal dimensions of parental employment, economic vulnerability, and group inequalities through advanced sequence techniques.

Scientific awards include:

• Elected Fellow, European Academy of Sociology (2024)
• Rosabeth-Moss-Kanter Prize (2023, 2018)
• Honorary Doctorate, University of Turku (2022)

She has held visiting positions at institutions including WZB Berlin, Stockholm University, Oxford University, and Columbia University. Her work combines empirical rigor with theoretical innovation in life course studies.