DECIPHE Welcomes New Team Member Bettina Hünteler

On August 1st, 2025, Bettina Hünteler joined the DECIPHE project as a new member. As a postdoctoral researcher at DIW Berlin in Philipp Lersch’s team, her work will focus on explaining variations in the persistence of homeownership across countries and over time. Bettina is a trained sociologist and demographer who holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cologne. Before joining DECIPHE, she worked as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and at the University of Cologne. In addition to her work on the intergenerational transmission of homeownership and wealth, she is interested other aspects of social inequality—such as health—and how they relate to the family and migration, integrating the life course perspective and both within- and between-individual heterogeneity.