Caroline Berghammer has been leading the research group “Family and Labour Market” at the Vienna Institute of Demography (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Wittgenstein Centre) since 2025. She has been affiliated with the Vienna Institute of Demography since 2005. From 2011 to 2025, she worked at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna, most recently as an Associate Professor. Caroline Berghammer earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Vienna in 2010. In 2006/07, she attended the European Doctoral School of Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. She also completed short research stays at Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).

• Families and inequality in a flexible world of work (FLIN)
• Consequences of divorce: Heterogeneity by duration and gender (CONDIV)
• Same-sex families in Austria. An analysis of family and employment behaviour of lesbian and gay families based on register data (SAMFA)