Matthias Studer, PhD in socioeconomics, is a Senior Researcher at the Swiss NCCR program ``LIVES overcoming vulnerability: life course perspectives'' and a Lecturer at the Geneva School of Social Sciences of the University of Geneva. His research interests include quantitative methods for longitudinal data analysis, sequence analysis, gendered career inequalities, labor market and social policy evaluation. He is one of the TraMineR developers, and he recently published on Discrepancy Analysis in Sociological Methods & Research and a comparison of sequence analysis distance measures in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A.