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Vanessa Wittemann
Vanessa Wittemann
Vanessa Wittemann is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Project LEARN led by Bastian Betthäuser. Within the project she collaboratively researches the impact of major disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic on education.
In her PhD at the University of Cologne, she studies the interplay of intergenerational educational reproduction and demographic patterns across countries. For an example, see the following publications:
- Wittemann, V., & Yastrebov, G. (2024). Untangling the Role of Assortative Mating in Educational Reproduction in Twelve European Countries. Comparative Population Studies, 49. https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2024-15
- Yastrebov, G., & Wittemann, V. (2024). Reconstructing Prospective Intergenerational Educational Mobility in 12 Countries. Demography, 11463595. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11463595
Ulysse Lojkine
Postdoctoral fellow of Axpo and CRIS for 2024-2026. He is interested in conceptualising and measuring inequality and power in the labour market.
Postdoctoral research project: Relational Inequality in the Labour Market: Firms’ Hierarchies and Workers’ Freedom.
Last publication (with C. Batut & P. Santini): “Which side are you on?” A historical study of union membership composition in seven Western countries.
Maricia Graciane Fisher-Souan
Maricia Fischer-Souan (PhD Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2020) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the CÉRIUM and the CRIS (2021-2024). She was first based at the Centre for International Studies and Research - CÉRIUM, Université de Montréal.
Her post-doctoral project, Im.magine - Mapping Immigrant Imaginations: Comparing North Africans in Montréal and Marseille - focuses on the spatial dynamics of immigrant identity formation and is supervised by Ettore Recchi. She was previously a researcher in the GEMM Horizon 2020 project - Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration and Markets.
Last publication: "Belonging to the nation, belonging to Europe? Varieties of particularism and universalism in migrant identity negotiation", Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Online February 8th.
Isabelle Langrock
Postdoctoral researcher, project ACTIVEINFO (ANR), led by Jen Schradie. Duration: 18 months, between June 2023 and December 2024. Data collection and analysis on misinformation mechanisms, based on daily media consumption. Qualitative and mixed methods.
Last publication: "Book bans in political context: Evidence from US schools" (with Marcelo S O Goncalves, Jack LaViolette, Katie Spoon), PNAS Nexus, June 2024.
