Karsten Hank

Professor
Universität zu Köln

Karsten Hank

Karsten Hank is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne and Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin. He studied Social Sciences at Ruhr-University Bochum, was a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, and Head of the Research Unit “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe” at the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging. Hank was a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and an International Research Fellow at VU Amsterdam. He is Co-PI of the German Family Panel (pairfam). His research on aging, families, and health has been published in journals such as Demography, European Sociological Review, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family.