Jakob Schmechel is a PhD Student at the Sociological Institute (SUZ) in Zurich and Adjunct Researcher at the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded.
With a background on social stratification, he investigates the relationship between economic conditions and societal change.
Currently his research focusses reproduction and fertility through dynamics and structures of partnership markets in affluent societies.
Within GenFam Jakob Schmechel works on fertility behaviour and reproductive decision-making.