Anna Wanka co-leads the COST-Action PAARNet together with Anna Urbaniak. She is a sociologist and critical gerontologist interested in un/doing difference and the material-discursive construction of age across the life course. Anna did her PhD in Sociology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and is currently a research group leader at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her areas of expertise comprise life course transitions and the re/production of intersectional inequalities across the life course, ageing and technologies, age-friendly cities and communities, ageing migrants, and lifelong learning. She has expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods and has developed reflexive approaches to mixed-methods research.