Contact
Here you can find contact information to our academic members of staff including researchers, research- and teaching assistants and PhD students.
Academic members of staff
Göran Ahrne, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Research interests: Social relationships, bonded actions, social and organizational change, globalization, meta- organizations, partial organization, love and friendship, kinship
Email: goran.ahrne@sociology.su.se
Gunnar Andersson, Professor of Demography
Research interests: Demography, fertility, mortality, migration, family formation, register-based research, generations and gender, Nordic countries, Sweden
Email: gunnar.andersson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Gunnar Andersson
Siddartha Aradhya, Researcher
Email: siddartha.aradhya@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Siddartha Aradhya
Kieron Barclay, Docent, Researcher
Research interests: Family demography, fertility, mortality, health, status attainment
Email: kieron.barclay@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Kieron Barclay
Vanessa Barker, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Borders and migration, sociology of punishment, political sociology, historical sociology, civil society and social movements, nordic and US contexts, cultural sociology, postcolonialism and critical race theory
E-mail: vanessa.barker@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Vanessa Barker
Tim Bartley, Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Research interests: Organizations, economic sociology, political sociology, global and transnational sociology, environment, labor, corporate responsibility
Email: tim.bartley@sociology.su.se
Karin Bergmark, Professor Emerita of Sociology
Email: karin.bergmark@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Karin Bergmark
Eva Bernhardt, Professor Emerita of Demography
Research interests: Family demography
Email: eva.bernhardt@sociology.su.se
Sunnee Billingsley, Docent, Senior lecturer
Research interests: Social policies, social mobility, fertility, mortality, health, family dynamics, economic context
Email: sunnee.billingsley@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Sunnee Billingsley
Gitte Blomgren, Lecturer
Email: gitte.blomgren@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Gitte Blomgren
Maria Brandén, Docent, Researcher
Email: maria.branden@sociology.su.se
Magnus Bygren, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Inequality, segregation, causal inference, quantitative methods, intersectional theory
Email: magnus.bygren@sociology.su.se
Eero Carroll, Docent, Lecturer
Email: eero.carroll@sociology.su.se
Chiara Comolli, Researcher
Research interests: Family dynamics, fertility behaviour, fertility intentions, economic uncertainty, inequality, wellbeing, life course studies, quantitative methods, causal inference, longitudinal data
Email: chiara.comolli@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Chiara Comolli
Johan Dahlberg, Researcher
Research interests: Fertility, timing of birth, birth seasonality, education and fertility, social background and fertility
Email: johan.dahlberg@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Johan Dahlberg
James Dennison, Researcher
Research interests: European electoral politics, the politics of migration, political attitudes and behaviour, the radical right, green politics
Email: james.dennison@sociology.su.se
See webpage for James Dennison
Sven Drefahl, Docent, Senior lecturer
Research interests: Longevity, life expectancy, mortality, determinants of mortality, global trends in health and mortality, causes of death, health and mortality inequalities
Email: sven.drefahl@sociology.su.se
Ann-Zofie Duvander, Professor of Demography
Research interests: Family policy, parental leave, social insurance, fertility, child maintenance, couple interaction, division of labor, income development, gender equality, divorce
Email: ann-zofie.duvander@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Ann-Zofie Duvander
Helen Eriksson, Researcher
Research interests: Family demography, family policy, parental leave, administrative register data, mixed models
Email: helen.eriksson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Helen Eriksson
Thomas Florén, Acting Lecturer
Email: thomas.floren@sociology.su.se
Michael Gähler, Professor of Sociology, Head of Department
Research interests: Ethnic and gender inequality on the labor market, family sociology, social selection to higher education, social stratification, welfare distribution
Email: michael.gahler@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Michael Gähler
Kristina Hagqvist, Lecturer
Email: kristina.hagqvist@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Kristina Hagqvist
Lisa Harber-Aschan
Email: lisa.harber.aschan@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Lisa Harber-Aschan
Barbara Hobson, Professor Emerita of Sociology
Email: barbara.hobson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Barbara Hobson
Martin Hällsten, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Quantitative methods, social stratification, social mobility
multigenerational mobility, educational choice, wealth inequality, ethnic and racial inequality, contextual and peer effects, social capital, social networks
Email: martin.hallsten@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Martin Hällsten
Juho Härkönen, Professor of Sociology
Email: juho.harkonen@sociology.su.se
Martin Kolk, Docent, Researcher
Research interests: Demography of kinship, family demography, historical demography, income and fertility, global population growth, cultural evolution, social stratification, influence from the family of origin on demographic outcomes
Email: martin.kolk@sociology.su.se
Linda Kridahl, Researcher
Research interests: Ageing, predictors of retirement, older couples, relational conflicts, late-life divorce, organization of household money, economic circumstance, gender equality, wellbeing, life course
Email: linda.kridahl@sociology.su.se
Carl le Grand, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Email: carl.legrand@sociology.su.se
Fredrik Liljeros, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Social networks, mathematical and computational sociology, parallel programming, network epidemiology, hospital infections, sexually transmitted infections, information geometry and complex systems
See webpage for Fredrik Liljeros
Anna Lund, Professor of Sociology, Deputy Head of Department
Research interests: Cultural sociology, ethnography/qualitative interviews, arts, gender, sociology of education, multicultural incorporation, youth studies
Email: anna.lund@sociology.su.se
Lina Lundström, Acting lecturer
Hernan Mondani, Researcher
Research interests: Social organizing, social mechanisms, social network analysis, life-course trajectory analysis, computational social science, sequence analysis
Email: hernan.mondani@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Hernan Mondani
Eleonora Mussino, Docent, Researcher
Research interests: International migration, life course, family demography, social policy, gender equality, quantitative method in social science, multiculturalism and integration, public health, mortality, inequality
Email: eleonora.mussino@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Eleonora Mussino
Mona Mårtensson, Docent, Researcher
Email: mona.martensson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Mona Mårtensson
Stefanie Möllborn, Senior lecturer
Research interests: Social demography, health, stratification, life course, social psychology, children and youth, gender, families
Email: mollborn@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Stefanie Möllborn
Magnus Nermo, Professor of Sociology
Email: magnus.nermo@sociology.su.se
Gerda Neyer, Docent, Researcher
Research interests: Welfare state, fertility, gender
Email: gerda.neyer@sociology.su.se
Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk, Researcher
Research interests: Family demography, family sociology, childbearing, work-family balance, labor market, employment, gender, marriage trends, family dynamics
Email: sofi.ohlsson-wijk@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk
Livia Oláh, Docent, Senior lecturer
Research interests: Family demography (partnership formation/dissolution, fertility), social policy, gender relations, social norms (values and attitudes), comparative research
Email: livia.olah@sociology.su.se
Didem Oral, Postdoc
Email: didem.oral@sociology.su.se
Giampiero Passaretta, Researcher
Email: giampiero.passaretta@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Giampiero Passaretta
Elena Pupaza, Researcher
Email: elena.pupaza@sociology.su.se
Daniel Ritter, Docent, Senior lecturer
Research interests: Revolutions, unarmed/nonviolent/civil resistance, social movements, political sociology, comparative historical sociology
Email: daniel.ritter@sociology.su.se
Jens Rydgren, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Political sociology, party politics, voting behavior, nationalism, intergroup relations, ethnic conflict, social networks, belief formation
Email: jens.rydgren@sociology.su.se
Åke Sandberg, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Research interests: Sociology of work and organization, work and technological change, critical management studies, gig economy and platform economy, industrial relations, “the Swedish model”
Email: ake.sandberg@sociology.su.se
Johanna Schiratzki, Researcher, Professor of Welfare Law
Research interests: Child law, family law, welfare law, best interests of the child, maintenance, parental responsibility
Email: johanna.schiratzki@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Johanna Schiratzki
Kirk Scott, Researcher
Email: kirk.scott@sociology.su.se
Kristina Stenström, Researcher
Email: kristina.stenstrom@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Kristina Stenström
Charlotta Stern, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Swedish labor market model, organization sociology, HR sociology, sociology of labor law
Email: lotta.stern@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Charlotta Stern
Mikaela Sundberg, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Science and technology studies, sociology of organizations, voluntary total institutions, fraternal relations, sociology of friendship, microsociology, qualitative methods
Email: mikaela.sundberg@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Mikaela Sundberg
Signe Svallfors, Researcher
Research interests: Sexual and reproductive health and rights, radical reproductive justice, gender-based violence, contraception, fertility preferences, armed conflict, Colombia
Email: signe.svallfors@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Signe Svallfors
Árni Sverrisson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Research interests: Technology in Society, digital Photography, innovation and entrepreneurship, social networks, visual Studies, environmental change, african development
Email: arni.sverrisson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Árni Sverrisson
Ryszard Szulkin, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Email: ryszard.szulkin@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Ryszard Szulkin
Elizabeth Thomson, Professor emerita of Demography
Research interests: Family demography, multipartner fertility, separation/divorce, couple decision-making, complex families and kinship, shared physical custody
Email: elizabeth.thomson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Elizabeth Thomson
Lars Udehn, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Email: lars.udehn@sociology.su.se
Caroline Uggla, Researcher
Research interests: Sex ratios and demography
Email: caroline.uggla@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Caroline Uggla
Andrea Voyer, Docent, Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Research interests: Cultural sociology, inequality, immigration, class, race and ethnicity, inclusion and exclusion, social change, social theory, computational sociology, qualitative methods
Email: andrea.voyer@sociology.su.se
Matthew Wallace, Docent, Researcher
Research interests: Health, mortality, international immigration, migrants and the descendants of migrants, ethnicity, and inequality
Email: matthew.wallace@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Matthew Wallace
Rosa Weber, Researcher
Research interests: International migration, integration, second-generation migrants, social capital, immigration enforcement, gender and labour market integration, remittances
Email: rosa.weber@sociology.su.se
Linda Weidenstedt, Lecturer
Research interests: Sociology of work and employment, organizational sociology, labor market research, future of work, digital work, platform and gig economy, human resources, empowering leadership
Email: linda.weidenstedt@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Linda Weidenstedt
Ben Wilson, Docent, Researcher
Research interests: Social demography, the lives of immigrants and their descendants families, children and childbearing, socioeconomic and health inequalities research design and methodology
Email: ben.wilson@sociology.su.se
Weiqian Xia, Researcher
Research interests: Political sociology, political attitudes and behaviors, party politics, sociology of religion, values, ethnic relations
Email: weiqian.xia@sociology.su.se
Peter Åkerbäck, Director of Studies Undergraduate Level
Research keywords: New religious movements, sects, sectarianism, sociology of religion, new age movements, religion, tantrism (neotantra)
Email: peter.akerback@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Peter Åkerbäck
Research- and teaching assistants
Simon Helperin
Email: simon.helperin@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Simon Helperin
Alice Junman
Email: alice.junman@sociology.su.se
Rojan Karakaya
Email: rojan.karakaya@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Rojan Karakaya
Ely Strömberg
Email: ely.stromberg@sociology.su.se
Marina Kullbrandt
Email: marina.kullbrandt@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Marina Kullbrandt
Jesper Lindmarker
Email: jesper.lindmarker@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Jesper Lindmarker
PhD students
Petter Bengtsson
Research interests: Economic sociology; markets in general and housing markets in particular; social theory; qualitative methods
Email: petter.bengtsson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Petter Bengtsson
Benson John
Email: benson.john@sociology.su.se
Klára Čapková
Email: klara.capkova@sociology.su.se
Erik Carlsson
Research interests: Fertility of immigrants, fertility differentials between ethnic groups, fertility intentions and their realization
Email: erik.carlsson@sociology.su.se
Serena Coppolino Perfumi
Research interests: Digital sociology, media psychology, critical internet studies, online disinformation, digital cultures, clgorithmic bias
Email: serena.perfumi@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Serena Coppolino Perfumi
Filip Dabergott
Email: filip.dabergott@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Filip Dabergott
Daniel Dahl
Email: daniel.dahl@sociology.su.se
Johanna Finnström
Research interests: Social policy, gender relations, separation and conflict, economic conflict, child maintenance, family sociology and parenting behaviour, sociology of law
Email: johanna.finnstrom@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Johanna Finnström
David Grobgeld
Email: david.grobgeld@sociology.su.se
See webpage for David Grobgeld
Zeth Isaksson
Research interests: Comparative politics, political economy, quantitative methods, and political sociology with a particular interest for historical political economy.
Email: zeth.isaksson@sociology.su.se
Elida Izani Ibrahim
Research interests: Polarization, lifestyles, cultural sociology, computational social science
Email: elida.ibrahim@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Elida Izani Ibrahim
Malcolm Jacobson
Research interests: Cultural Sociology, memory studies, visual studies, subcultures, graffiti, photography
Email: malcolm.jacobson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Malcolm Jacobson
Sjors Joosten
Research interests: Urban sociology, social cohesion and inequality, arts (music), multicultural integration, belonging and identity, ethnography
Email: sjors.joosten@sociology.su.se
Kristin Jung Ståhle
Research interests: Cultural aesthetics, political theory, sexuality, pop culture
Email: kristin.jung-stahle@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Kristin Jung Ståhle
Konstantin Kazenin
Email: konstantin.kazenin@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Konstantin Kazenin
Maxim Kan
Research interests: Fertility, gender inequality, ethnicity, religion, contraceptive use, sexual and reproductive health, Central Asia, Post-Soviet countries
Email: maxim.kan@sociology.su.se
Wooseong Kim
Research interests: Immigrant integration, second-generation immigrants, educational mismatch, migration, health inequality
Email: wooseong.kim@sociology.su.se
Melis Kirgil
Research interests: Social norms, social inequality, networks, cooperation, collective intentionality, cross-cultural differences, mixed-methods
Email: melis.kirgil@sociology.su.se
Sanni Kuikka
Research interests: Computational social science, machine learning, algorithmic bias, life course, intergenerational processes, neighbourhood effects, social policy, population register data
Email: sanni.kuikka@sociology.su.se
Weiven Lai
Research interests: Family demography, migration, cohabitation, partnership dynamics
Email: weiwen.lai@sociology.su.se
Pierre Nikolov
Email: pierre.nikolov@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Pierre Nikolov
Anna-Karin Nylin
Email: anna-karin.nylin@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Anna-Karin Nylin
Filip Olsson
Research interests: Implicit bias, discrimination, nationalism, experimental research
Email: filip.olsson@sociology.su.se
Steffen Peters
Research interests: Fertility, personality, five factor model
Email: steffen.peters@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Steffen Peters
Miska Simanainen
Research interests: Cash transfers and incentives, poverty and income inequality, health and wellbeing, field experiments, register studies, tax-benefit microsimulation modelling
Email: miska.simanainen@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Miska Simanainen
Signe Svallfors
Research interests: Sexual and reproductive health and rights, radical reproductive justice, gender-based violence, contraception, fertility preferences, armed conflict, Colombia
Email: signe.svallfors@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Signe Svallfors
Ryan Switzer
Research interests: Social movements, technology, comparative politics, social and cultural theory, policing, far right politics, history of ideas
Email: ryan.switzer@sociology.su.se
Max Thaning
Research interests: Intergenerational inequality, social mobility, social class and socio-economic inequality
Email: max.thaning@sociology.su.se
Frankseco Yorke
Research interests: Refugees studies, immigration and integration, second generation immigrants education and health outcomes of refugees
Email: frankseco.yorke@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Frankseco Yorke
Weiqian Xia
Research interests: Political sociology, political attitudes and behaviors, party politics, sociology of religion, values, ethnic relations
Email: weiqian.xia@sociology.su.se
Last updated: May 12, 2022
Source: Department of Sociology