Marcel RaabMarcel 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 Sudy and the Professorship of Demography at the University of Bamberg, as a research fellow in the research group "Demography and Inequality" at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Assistant Professor for Sociology at the University of Mannheim. In 2011 he was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University, New Haven. In 2014, he obtained a doctorate in sociology at the University of Bamberg with his dissertation on "Family Effects on Family Formation". Currently, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the SAA - Sequence Analysis Association.