Nuo Hou is currently a guest researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg, where she also completed her doctoral studies. Her research focuses on the sociology of education and family, social inequality, and quantitative methods, with an emphasis on multigenerational stratification, educational inequality, gender inequality, and migration in China. Her research examines the educational transmission from grandparents to grandchildren across rural, urban, and migration settings. Her doctoral research, titled “Grandparenting in China: Educational Inequality across Generations in rural, urban, and migration settings” has been published as a monograph. Her current research continues to investigate educational inequality and family processes across diverse social contexts.