Laureate International Visitors 2025–2026

July 2025 – July 2026

These visits offer a great opportunity for our team to collaborate and gain diverse perspectives from their expertise and experiences.  Find out more about our guests.

Professor Matthias Studer from the University of Geneva is an expert in quantitative analysis of longitudinal data, particularly in sequence analysis and causal approaches, such as quasi-experimental design. His research focuses on the development of these methods and their applications for the study of vulnerability, life trajectories, social policies, and careers. He uses data from both longitudinal panel surveys and population administrative data. Matthias is also affiliated with the LIVES centre (Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research).

Pia Sophia Schober is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her research interests include gender and social inequalities in employment and family work, gender and relationship beliefs, subjective wellbeing and mental health, and family policy and gender equality policies. Methodologically, she mostly applies quantitative, longitudinal analyses or survey-experimental methods as well as mixed-method designs. Recent publications include ‘How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: Experimental evidence from Germany’ published in European Sociological Review and ’A Time of Great Change: How Parents, Friends, and Classmates Shape Adolescents’ Attitudes towards the Gender Division of Labor’ in Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Nazihah Muhamad Noor focuses on research on the social reproduction of health inequalities across the life course. She is currently a PhD candidate at the #PopHealthLab, University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where she examines the effects of early life social and behavioral exposures on in adult cardiovascular outcomes. At the LCC, Nazihah is looking into the differential effects of tobacco regulations on adolescents in Australia.