Zachary Van Winkle research revolves around individual and institutional factors that shape life courses and life course transitions as well as the consequences those life courses have for individuals in a comparative perspective.

He defended his doctoral dissertation on the complexity of family life courses in 20th century Europe and the United States in early October of 2018, which was awarded the best PhD thesis prize from the European Consortium for Sociological Research and the German Society for Demography.

Starting in September of 2015, he was employed as a pre-doctoral research fellow at the department of microsociology at the Humboldt University and the research group on demography and inequality at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He was hosted by Stockholm University, Princeton University and the University of Amsterdam for research visits.

Up to 2020, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in sociology and social demography at the department of sociology and Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.

Zachary Van Winkle is supervisor of CRIS PhD training

• WIDOW - ERC Starting Grant 2023-2028. A Social Demography of Widowhood across Ageing Societies.
• WIDOW19 - Assessing the Individual and Societal Economic Consequences of Premature Widowhood following the Covid-19 Pandemic (ANR Résilience Covid19. July 2021-June 2022).

Collaborations internationales - International Collaborations

• CRITEVENTS - Critical Life Events and the Dynamics of Inequality: Risk, Vulnerability, and Cumulative Disadvantage, NORFACE Network.
• EQUALLIVES - Inequality, early adult life courses and economic outcomes at mid-life in comparative context, 
  NORFACE Network.

• Member of the Population Association of America, the European Population Association, the Sequence Analysis Association, and the German Society for Demography.
• Journal of Family Research: Member of the editorial board. 

OCCASIONAL REVIEWER

American Sociological Review, Demography, the Journal of Marriage and Family, the European Sociological Review, Social Forces, European Journal of Population, the Journal of European Social Policy, Advances in Life Course Research, Acta Sociologica, Demographic Research, Population Studies, the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, and SAGE Open

• Zachary van Winkle, Bartholomew A Konechni. The Role of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for the Mental Health Consequences of Widowhood during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2025. ⟨hal-05236482⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Bartholomew A Konechni. Government Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Depressive Symptoms Following Widowhood. Demography, 2025, 62 (1), pp.137-158. ⟨10.1215/00703370-11790737⟩. ⟨hal-05236475⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Tina Baier. Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education. Journal of Marriage and Family, 2025, ⟨10.1111/jomf.13067⟩. ⟨hal-04917793⟩
• Nicole Kapelle, Zachary van Winkle. Changes in Household Wealth Over the Process of Widowhood Across European Countries. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2024, 79 (10), pp.gbae116. ⟨10.1093/geronb/gbae116⟩. ⟨hal-04712778⟩
• Anette Eva Fasang, Rob J Gruijters, Zachary van Winkle. The life course boat: A theoretical framework for analyzing variation in family lives across time, place, and social location. Journal of Marriage and Family, 2024, ⟨10.1111/jomf.13012⟩. ⟨hal-04622190⟩
• Samy Cohen, Nonna Mayer, Franck Ramus, Zachary van Winkle. When social sciences meet genomics. 2024, 32 p. ⟨hal-04721856⟩
• Carla Rowold, Zachary van Winkle. Cohort Change in Family Life Course Complexity of Adults and Children. The Demography of Transforming Families, 56, Springer International Publishing, pp.203-225, 2023, The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 9783031296659. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-29666-6_10⟩. ⟨hal-04247674⟩
• Emanuela Struffolino, Zachary van Winkle. The persistent risk of in-work poverty following the birth of a first, second, and third child across the life course. Journal of Family Research, 2023, 35, pp.345 - 356. ⟨10.20377/jfr-910⟩. ⟨hal-04059832⟩
• Rob Gruijters, Zachary van Winkle, Anette Fasang. Life Course Trajectories and Wealth Accumulation in the United States: Comparing Late Baby Boomers and Early Millennials. American Journal of Sociology, 2023, 129 (2), pp.530-569. ⟨10.1086/726445⟩. ⟨hal-04278042⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Fangqi Wen. A Holistic Approach to Family Life Course Change across 1930–1978 Chinese Birth Cohorts. Population and Development Review, In press, ⟨10.1111/padr.12553⟩. ⟨hal-04038795⟩
• Antonino Polizzi, Emanuela Struffolino, Zachary van Winkle. Family demographic processes and in-work poverty: A systematic review. Advances in Life Course Research, 2022, 52, pp.100462. ⟨10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100462⟩. ⟨hal-03671516⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Christiaan Monden. Family Size and Parental Wealth: The Role of Family Transfers in Europe. European Journal of Population, 2022, ⟨10.1007/s10680-022-09611-w⟩. ⟨hal-03671522⟩
• Emanuela Struffolino, Zachary van Winkle. Gender and race differences in pathways out of in-work poverty in the US. Social Science Research, 2021, 99, pp.102585. ⟨10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102585⟩. ⟨hal-03671508⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Dalton Conley. Genome-Wide Heritability Estimates for Family Life Course Complexity. Demography, 2021, 58 (4), pp.1575-1602. ⟨10.1215/00703370-9373608⟩. ⟨halshs-03361267⟩
• Tina Baier, Zachary van Winkle. Does Parental Separation Lower Genetic Influences on Children's School Performance?. Journal of Marriage and Family, 2021, 83 (3), pp.898-917. ⟨10.1111/jomf.12730⟩. ⟨halshs-03361256⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Thomas Leopold. Family size and economic wellbeing following divorce: The United States in comparative perspective. Social Science Research, 2021, 96, pp.102541. ⟨10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102541⟩. ⟨halshs-03361269⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Emanuele Ferragina, Ettore Recchi. The Unexpected Decline in Feelings of Depression among Adults Ages 50 and Older in 11 European Countries amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2021, 7, pp.237802312110327. ⟨10.1177/23780231211032741⟩. ⟨halshs-03361263⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Anette Fasang. The complexity of employment and family life courses across 20th century Europe: More evidence for larger cross-national differences but little change across 1916‒1966 birth cohorts. Demographic Research, 2021, 44, pp.775-810. ⟨10.4054/DemRes.2021.44.32⟩. ⟨halshs-03361261⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Anette Eva Fasang. Parenthood Wage Gaps Across the Life Course: A Comparison by Gender and Race. Journal of Marriage and Family, 2020, 82 (5), pp.1515-1533. ⟨10.1111/jomf.12713⟩. ⟨halshs-03361237⟩
• Zachary van Winkle. Early Family Life Course Standardization in Sweden: The Role of Compositional Change. European Journal of Population, 2020, 36 (4), pp.765-798. ⟨10.1007/s10680-019-09551-y⟩. ⟨halshs-03361248⟩
• Zachary van Winkle. Family policies and family life course complexity across 20th-century Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 2020, 30 (3), pp.320-338. ⟨10.1177/0958928719880508⟩. ⟨halshs-03361233⟩
• Hannah Zagel, Zachary van Winkle. Women’s Family and Employment Life Courses Across Twentieth-Century Europe: The Role of Policies and Norms. Social Politics, 2020, ⟨10.1093/sp/jxz056⟩. ⟨halshs-03361249⟩
• Paula Sheppard, Zachary van Winkle. Using sequence analysis to test if human life histories are coherent strategies. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020, 2, ⟨10.1017/ehs.2020.38⟩. ⟨halshs-03361241⟩
• Heta Pöyliö, Zachary van Winkle. Do parental resources moderate the relationship between women’s income and timing of parenthood?. Advances in Life Course Research, 2019, 39, pp.1-12. ⟨10.1016/j.alcr.2019.02.003⟩. ⟨halshs-03361253⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Emanuela Struffolino. When working isn’t enough: Family demographic processes and in-work poverty across the life course in the United States. Demographic Research, 2018, 39, pp.365-380. ⟨10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.12⟩. ⟨halshs-03361226⟩
• Zachary van Winkle. Family Trajectories Across Time and Space: Increasing Complexity in Family Life Courses in Europe?. Demography, 2017, 55 (1), pp.135-164. ⟨10.1007/s13524-017-0628-5⟩. ⟨halshs-03359509⟩
• Zachary van Winkle, Anette Fasang. Complexity in Employment Life Courses in Europe in the Twentieth Century—Large Cross-National Differences but Little Change across Birth Cohorts. Social Forces, 2017, 96 (1), pp.1-30. ⟨10.1093/sf/sox032⟩. ⟨halshs-03361217⟩
• Marina Micari, Zachary van Winkle, Pilar Pazos. Among friends: the role of academic-preparedness diversity in individual performance within a small-group STEM learning environment. International Journal of Science Education, 2016, 38 (12), pp.1904-1922. ⟨10.1080/09500693.2016.1218091⟩. ⟨halshs-03361231⟩