Benita Combet is a SNF Ambizione grant holder and examines gendered and social class-based field of study choice. Previously, she held an interim professor position at the University of Konstanz and was a fellow at the Cluster of Excellence at the same institution. Further, she worked as a Postdoc.Mobility grant holder at LMU Munich (with Katrin Auspurg) and as a senior researcher at University of Lausanne (with Daniel Oesch). She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Bern (supervisors: Ben Jann and Walter Müller) after studying Sociology, Science of Religion and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bern.