Nora Waitkus is a sociologist looking at inequality and socio-economic stratification in contemporary capitalist societies. She is mainly interested in exploring and explaining cross-national variation and institutional drivers of wealth inequality and concentration. Her work further deals with class position, wealth portfolios and wealth accumulation using quantitative approaches and longitudinal data.

Before joining LSE International Inequalities Institute as a postdoc, Nora has worked at the Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM) at the University of Bremen. She has earned degrees from the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Berlin. Prior to joining LSE, she has completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bremen and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.