Nadia Steiber has been a Senior Fellow at IHS since 2020. She is a Professor of Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. Previously, from 2018 to 2020, she worked as a Senior Researcher at IHS. She earned her doctorate in Sociology in 2007 from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Max Weber Programme & Marie Curie Fellowship, 2009–2012). From 2013 to 2017, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Sociology, University of Vienna.

Her research focuses on social inequality across the life course, particularly on intergenerational educational mobility, educational assortative mating (partner selection), and its consequences for families and societies. Additional research interests include the gendered divisions of labor (child penalty), quality of work and health in the context of ageing societies.