Laura Bernardi is Full Professor of Demography and Life Course Sociology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2008-present), and a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Research Foundation. She led an Independent Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and was Assistant Professor at the University of Rostock. She had been part of the Board of Directors of the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) LIVES. Her research interests are in the field of life course and family demography.
Dimitri Mortelmans is Senior Full Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is Head of the Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH). He teaches Introduction to Scientific Work, Quantitative Research methods, Qualitative Research Methods, Applied Multivariate Statistics and Advanced topics in family sociology, life course sociology and demography. His research concentrates on family sociology and life course sociology.