Contact
Here you can find contact information to researchers, PhD students, and research and teaching assistants at the Department of Sociology.
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
Linus Andersson, Affiliated Researcher
Email: linus.andersson@sofi.su.se
See webpage for Linus Andersson
Siddartha Aradhya, Researcher
Email: siddartha.aradhya@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Siddartha Aradhya
Kieron Barclay, Professor of Sociology
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: Sociology of punishment, political sociology, qualitative methods, borders, migration, social movements.
E-mail: vanessa.barker@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Vanessa Barker
Petter Bengtsson, Temporary Senior Lecturer
E-mail: petter.bengtsson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Petter Bengtsson
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, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Social policies, social mobility, fertility, mortality, health, family dynamics, economic context
Email: sunnee.billingsley@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Sunnee Billingsley
Debora Birgier, Researcher
Email: debora.birgier@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Debora Birgier
Gitte Blomgren, Lecturer
Email: gitte.blomgren@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Gitte Blomgren
Christopher Bondy, Guest Researcher
Email: christopher.bondy@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Christopher Bondy
Maria Brandén, Docent, Researcher
Email: maria.branden@sociology.su.se
Magnus Bygren, Professor of Sociology, Head of Department
Research interests: Inequality, segregation, causal inference, quantitative methods, intersectional theory
Email: magnus.bygren@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
Agostino Cristofalo, Guest Researcher
E-mail: agostino.cristofalo@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Agostino Cristofalo
Lars Crusefalk, Temporary Senior Lecturer
Email: lars.crusefalk@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Lars Crusefalk
Johan Dahlberg, Affiliated 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
Dalman Elien, Researcher
Email: elien.dalman@sociology.su.se
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
Anni Erlandsson, Researcher
Research interests: discrimination, family sociology, fertility, gender, labor market inequality
Email: anni.erlandsson@sociology.su.se
See web page for Anni Erlandsson
Thomas Florén, Temporary Senor Lecturer
Email: thomas.floren@sociology.su.se
Mark Gortfelder, Researcher
Email: mark.gortfelder@sociology.su.se
See web page for Mark Gortfelder
Michael Gähler, Professor of Sociology
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, Researcher
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, Senior Lecturer
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
Weiven Lai
Research interests: Family demography, migration, cohabitation, partnership dynamics
Email: weiwen.lai@sociology.su.se
Carl le Grand, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Email: carl.legrand@sociology.su.se
Zeth Isaksson, Affiliated Researcher
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
Wooseong Kim, Affiliated Researcher
Email: wooseong.kim@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
Roberta Musuraca, Guest Researcher
Email: roberta.misuraca@sociology.su.se
See webpage för Roberta Misuraca
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 Margareta Mårtensson, Researcher, Docent
Email: mona.martensson@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Mona Margareta Mårtensson
Stefanie Möllborn, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Social demography, health, stratification, life course, social psychology, children and youth, gender, families
Email: stefanie.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
Anna-Karin Nylin, Researcher
Email: anna-karin.nylin@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Anna-Karin Nylin
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
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
Isaac Sasson, Docent, Guest Researcher
Email: isaac.sasson@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 Schiratzkik
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, Docent, Postdoctoral Researcher
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
Maria Tyrberg, Researcher
Email: maria.tyrberg@sociology.su.se
Lars Udehn, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Email: lars.udehn@sociology.su.se
Andrea Voyer, Professor 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: secularization and post-secularization, religious demography, religious diversity, ethnic and religious minorities, religion and politics.
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
Martin Önnerfors, Postdoctoral researcher
PhD students
Lovisa Backman
Email: lovisa.backman@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Lovisa Backman
Abrar Bawati
Email: abrar.bawati@sociology.su.se
Liliana Calderón
Research interests: Historical demography, genealogies, kinship, demographic microsimulation, mortality, data quality
Email: liliana.calderon@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Liliana Calderón
Elis Carlberg Larsson, guest PhD student
Email: elis.carlberg.larsson@sociology.su.se
Daniel Dahl
Email: daniel.dahl@sociology.su.se
Jasper Darin
Email: jasper.darin@sociology.su.se
Flore Debruyne
Research interests: family policy, social policy, parental leave, social norms, division of labour, gender equality, inequality on the labour market
Email: flore.debruyne@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Flore Debruyne
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
Xochitl Ellery Domingo Husted, Guest PhD student
Email: xochitl.husted@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Xochitl Ellery Domingo Husted
Elida Izani Ibrahim
Research interests: Polarization, lifestyles, cultural sociology, computational social science
Email: elida.ibrahim@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Elida Izani Ibrahim
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
Tove Klasson
Email: tove.klasson@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
Ida Ljungström
Research interests: Aging, health and mortality, and demographic methods
Email: ida.ljungstrom@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Ida Ljungström
Mimmi Aurora Lounela
Research interests: migration, uncertainty, labour market, precarious employment, fertility behaviour and intentions of immigrants, immigrant integration, gender differentials.
Email: mimmi.lounela@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Mimmi Aurora Lounela
Pierre Nikolov
Email: pierre.nikolov@sociology.su.se
Sonja Rasiwala Hägglund
Email: sonja.rasiwala@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Sonja Rasiwala Hägglund
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
Ane Tømmerås
Email: ane.tommeras@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
Olivia Öhman Granström
Research and teaching assistants
Ella Björnsdotter
Email: ella.bjornsdotter@sociology.su.se
See webpage for Ella Björnsdotter
Edvin Borg
Email: edvin.borg@sociology.su.se
Erik Lindvall
Email: erik.lindvall@sociology.su.se
Klara Nelin
Email: klara.nelin@sociology.su.se
Last updated: 2026-01-09
Source: Department of Sociology