since 2015	Professorship, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at the Institute of Sociology at Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg
2014-2015	Professorship, Empirical Social Research at the University of Cologne and Scientific Director of the Data Archive for the Social Sciences, GESIS – Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
2013-2014	Junior professor of education and family sociology (W1), University of Mannheim
2012-2013	Visiting professorship, General Sociology I, TU Chemnitz
12/2012	Habilitation at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, TU Chemnitz (venia legendi for sociology); title of cumulative habilitation thesis: “Prozesse sozialer Homogenisierung: Zur Entstehung von Ähnlichkeit in sozialen Aggregaten”
03/2008	Conferral of PhD from the Institute of Sociology at RWTH Aachen; dissertation title: “Was hält Partnerschaften zusammen? Psychologische und soziologische Erklärungsansätze zum Erfolg von Paarbeziehungen”

Research Areas

Quantitative methods, in particular methods for analysing dyads and panel analyses
Family research and demographic processes (choice of lifestyles, fertility, separation and divorce, partnerships and inter-generational relationships)
Health research (medical research, health inequality)

Academic Roles

Scientific Board Member of the Study "Aufwachsen in Deutschland: Alltagswelten" (AID:A), DJI
Board Chair of Zentrum für Sozialforschung Halle e.V.
External Fellow at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)
Committee member in the Section for “Sociology of the Family” at the German Sociological Association (2015-2021)
Co-editor of the book series “Familienforschung” Springer VS Verlag
Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and for Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO), Belgium
Reviewer for Advances in Life Course Research, Bundesgesundheitsblatt, CPoS – Comparative Population Studies, Demographic Research, European Journal of Population, European Sociological Review, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch), Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, MDA (methods–data–analysis), Nature Human Behaviour, Population Studies, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Soziale Welt, Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, Zeitschrift für Soziologie

Stawarz, N., Arránz Becker, O., & Rüger, H. (2022). Work-related internal migration and changes in mental and physical health. A longitudinal study using German data . Health & Place, 75. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102806
Arránz Becker, O. & Hank, K. (2022). Adult children’s estrangement from parents in Germany . Journal of Marriage and Family, 84 (1): 347-360. DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12796
Mikucka, M., O. Arránz Becker & Wolf, C. (2021). Revisiting marital health protection. Intraindividual health dynamics around transition to legal marriage . Journal of Marriage and Family, 83 (5), 1439-1459. DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12784
Arránz Becker, O. & Loter, K. (2021). Socio-economic family background and adult children’s health in Germany: The role of intergenerational transmission of education . European Sociological Review, 37(4), 588-606. DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcaa063
Loter, K., Arránz Becker, O., Mikucka, M. & Wolf, C. (2019). Mental Health Dynamics around Marital Dissolution. Moderating Effects of Parenthood and Children's Age . In O. Arránz Becker, M. Mikucka & C. Wolf (Eds.), Special Issue „Families, Health, and Well-Being“. Journal of Family Research (Zeitschrift für Familienforschung) 02/2019, 155-179.

Publications by O. Arránz-Becker (Date: 09/2021)
Publikationsliste 2021_09.pdf (27.2 KB) vom 20.08.2021

BA-Vorlesung „Methoden der Datenerhebung und der qualitativen Datenanalyse" (Mo 16-18 Uhr)

BA-Vorlesung „Einführung in die Inferenzstatistik und Regressionsanalyse" (Di 12-14 Uhr)

BA-Übung „Methoden der Datenerhebung und der qualitativen Datenanalyse" (Di 14-16 Uhr & Mi 8-10 Uhr)

Forschungskolloquium empirische Sozialforschung (Di 18-20 Uhr)