Professor Michaela Kreyenfeld

Michaela Kreyenfeld studied social sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum (Diploma 1996) and gained her doctorate at the University of Rostock in 2002. From 2002 to 2016, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock; from 2009 to 2013 as deputy head of the Laboratory of Economic and Social Demography, from 2013 to 2016 as head of the Research Group “Life Course, Social Policy, and the Family”. Between 2005 and 2012, she also was a Junior Professor of Demography at Rostock University. Since 2014, she has been Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School in Berlin.

Michaela Kreyenfeld is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, executive board member of the German Society of Demography, editorial board member of Comparative Population Studies, advisory board member at the German Institute for Population Research as well as member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Issues of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

Her research focuses on the demography of families, family sociology, life course analysis, social policy, and migration.