Marcel Raab is Senior Researcher at the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg and Deputy Managing Director of the Journal of Family Research. Previously, he worked as a research assistant at the National Educational Panel Study and the Professorship of Demography at the University of Bamberg, as a research fellow at the WZB Berlin, and Assistant Professor for Sociology at the University of Mannheim. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Sequence Analysis Association, author of the QASS book “Sequence Analysis” co-authored with Emanuela Struffolino, and developer of the R package “ggseqplot” for sequence data visualization.

Emanuela Struffolino is Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan. After receiving her PhD from the University of Milano-Bicocca, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. She was then Guest Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research interests include social inequality, life-course sociology, family demography, and methods for longitudinal data analysis. She has published in - among others - Sociological Methodology, Demography, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and Advances in Life Course Research.