Bettina Isengard, PD Dr., has been a research assistant at the Chair of Prof. Szydlik since 2006 and program coordinator of the Department of Sociology since 2023. She studied and completed her doctorate at the University of Mannheim and habilitated at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on social structure and inequality research, life course and generations as well as methods of empirical social research. Bettina Isengard is a member of the research group «Labour, Generation, Stratification» (AGES).