Magdalena Fellner takes over the position of Senior Researcher in the "Students and Graduates" research area at INCHER. She replaces Shweta Mishra, who moved to the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research in Duisburg last year.

After completing a master's degree in Social Policy and Social Research at University College London and a diploma in teaching at the University of Vienna In 2023, Magdalena completed her doctoral studies (summa cum laude) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her particular research interest lies in analyzing the manifold connections between education, educational institutions and social inequality

Stefan Beljean Stefan Beljean is a sociologist and will be responsible for the area of "Academic Change" as Senior Researcher at INCHER. After studying sociology and philosophy at the University of Konstanz, Stefan earned his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.  Before joining INCHER, he worked at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the University of Heidelberg (Max Weber Institute for Sociology). In the area of "Academic Change", he will drive forward a research project on the spread of higher education marketing.