Author: Dr. Lisa Schmid

Lisa Schmid studied Sociology at the University of Mannheim (B.A.) and the University of Cologne (M.Sc.). From October 2014 to March 2020, she was employed as a research associate at the University of Cologne. Since October 2019, Lisa Schmid is a research associate at GESIS, initially in the project "Harmonizing and synthesizing partnership histories from different research data infrastructures" (HaSpaD) and since April 2020 in the Family Surveys team, DRS. In her PHD thesis she investigated determinants of marital stability in Germany (doctorate in 2021).

Breaking Up, Mixing Up: Exploring Germany’s Post-Marital Family Kaleidoscope

What happens after “happily ever after” ends? Dr. Lisa Schmid from GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and Prof. Dr. Sergi Vidal from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre for Demographic Studies set out to illuminate the mosaic of family lives after marital separation in Germany. Their fresh look doesn’t …

04/08/2026 Dr. Lisa Schmid