I’m a sociologist working on social inequality and family dynamics, with a particular focus on gender disparities and labor market discrimination. Much of my work asks how different dimensions of inequality—gender, ethnicity, and class—intersect in shaping social and economic outcomes. I approach these questions with quantitative and experimental methods.

I’m currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology at LMU Munich. I’m also an associated researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” at the University of Konstanz and a collaborator at the Center for Social Inequality Studies (CSIS) at the University of Trento.

I earned my PhD at the University of Trento, where I also completed my BA and MA in Sociology, and spent time as a visiting researcher at the University of Konstanz. I hold a second Master’s, in Sociology and Demography, from Pompeu Fabra University.

My work has appeared in journals including Sociological Science, European Sociological Review, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. I’ve received several awards along the way, among them the 2026 ESR Best Reviewer Award, the 2024 FReDA International User Conference Best Presentation Award, and the 2023 Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Best Paper Award.

I recently received funding for a collaborative LMU–NYU project, “Unveiling Social Status Signals and Their Consequences: Evidence from a Cross-National Factorial Survey Experiment”, which I co-lead with Katrin Auspurg and Guillermina Jasso.

Feel free to get in touch: anna.zamberlan (at) lmu.de