My research focuses on different aspects of stress, health and well-being in adults, and adolescents in their daily life settings at work, in educational contexts and at home, and emphasizes psychobiological mechanisms. As of December 2013 I am professor of psychology, in particular work and organizational psychology, at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.

I received my PhD in Psychology from Stockholm University in 2002 and my thesis formed part of the project Work without Boundaries and explored stress, health and well-being in teleworking women and men. Upon receiving my doctorate, I worked as a researcher within different projects at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, and at the Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS) Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet. In 2005, I received a 2-year post doc grant from the Anna Ahlström and Ellen Terserus Foundation that allowed further investigation of the linkages between stress, health and well-being in women. As of September 2006, I am Associate Professor of psychology and as of July 2007, I am senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology. For a while I was on leave from this position for a fixed-term senior lecturer position at CHESS. Between the years 2009-2014 I held a senior research fellowship ("forskarassistenttjänst").

I am also involved in a number of PhD projects and have been the main supervisor of Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz who successfully defended her thesis in December 2008 and subsequently landed a post-doctoral fellowship between 2011-2013 with me as supervisor. I have also supervised Drs. Cornelia Wulff (2011), Victoria Blom (2011), Roberto Riva (2012), Håkan Andersson (2012), Niklas Hansen (2014), Lisa Folkesson (2014), Stefan Annell (2015), Marian Papp (2017), Eva Charlotta Nylén (2017), Aleksandra Bujacz (2017), Maria Öhrstedt (2017), Alicia Ohlsson (2020) Susanna Mixter (2021), Sarah P. Thomas (2022), Jonas Rafi (2023), Carolina Sconfienza (licentiate; 2023), Yannick Klein (2024) and Anna S Tanimoto (2025). Current supervisory activities includes Sofia Malmrud, Maria Wijkander, Emma Oskarsson, Ida Bekke Rønneberg Nilsen and Martina Nanteza. In addition to these PhD projects, I have also been involved in a number of post doc projects. Previous post docs include, besides Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Victoria Blom, Roberto Riva, Anne Richter, Helena Falkenberg, and Stefan Annell, with Ulrica, Victoria, and Anne finalizing their post docs by the Stockholm University Faculty of Social Sciences promoting them to associate professors ('docent').

In addition to reviewer assigments for public and private research agencies, I have been member of extended editorial boards for different scientific journals. As of 2021, I am associate editor of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. Moreover, I have been a member of the quality board of the Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise (2019-2022). Also, I was the department representative on the board of the Stress Research Institute until it was merged with the Department of Psychology in early 2024. Starting in 2016 and ending when I stepped down in 2024 after having completed three periods, I was chairing the board of the Stockholm University Psychology Clinic. Currently, I am member of the department board, during the period 2024 until 2026 as well as involved in working groups at Stockholm University.

My work includes contributing to state-of-the-art overviews and reports. Over the last years, I have been involved in an overview regarding the working conditions of women and men and in writing a report about women's work environment.