Angela Christen, born in 1981, has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate at Prof. Dr. Jörg Rössel's chair since 2026. She studied sociology and education at the University of Zurich. Her research project deals with the desire to have children and childlessness as reproductive and life course decisions in the Swiss context. She examines how social norms, resources and life courses are related to the decision for or against parenthood. Another focus is ART and its significance for starting a family, life course planning and social inequality.

She is part of the University Research Priority Project (URPP) Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R and the project (Un)changing gender roles and family diversity in Switzerland and beyond: causes, consequences, and challenges GenFam.