Dr. Lara Bister
Lara Bister is currently a research fellow in the Research Group Health and Social Inequality at the WZB and at the Einstein Center Population Diversity. Her research focuses on health and family from a life course perspective, with a particular focus on contextual stressors, family dynamics and child disability.
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Academic positions
Since 10/2024 Research Fellow at the Research Group Health and Social Inequality at WZB & Einstein Center Population Diversity
Since 10/2024 Affiliated research fellow at Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University
Since 10/2023 Affiliated research fellow at Max Planck-University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health (MaxHel), University of Helsinki & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2023-2024 Post-doctoral researcherat the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University
2020-2024 Ph.D. researcher & teaching assistant at the Department of Demography, University of Groningen
2019 Student assistant at the Population Research Center, University of Groningen
2016-2018 Teaching assistant at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne
2018 Research assistant at the Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Science of Health (ceres), University of Cologne
Academic education
2024 Ph.D. in Demography at the University of Groningen & the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2020 European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2020 European Master in Demography at the Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2019 M.Sc. in Population Studies at the University of Groningen
2019 Honours Master "Leadership: Making the difference" at the University of Groningen
2017 B.Sc. in Social Science at the University of Cologne