Contact
Here you can find contact information to researchers, PhD students, and research and teaching assistants at the Department of Sociology.
Faculty
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
Gunnar Andersson, Professor of Demography
Research interests: Demography, fertility, mortality, migration, family formation, register-based research, generations and gender, Nordic countries, Sweden
gunnar.andersson@sociology.su.se
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Linus Andersson, Affiliate Researcher
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Siddartha Aradhya, Docent, Researcher
siddartha.aradhya@sociology.su.se
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Kieron Barclay, Professor of Sociology, Deputy Head of Department
Research interests: Family demography, fertility, mortality, health, status attainment
kieron.barclay@sociology.su.se
Vanessa Barker, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Sociology of punishment, political sociology, qualitative methods, borders, migration, social movements.
vanessa.barker@sociology.su.se
Petter Bengtsson, Temporary Senior Lecturer
petter.bengtsson@sociology.su.se
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Karin Bergmark, Professor Emerita of Sociology
karin.bergmark@sociology.su.se
Eva Bernhardt, Professor Emerita of Demography
Research interests: Family demography
Sunnee Billingsley, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Social policies, social mobility, fertility, mortality, health, family dynamics, economic context
sunnee.billingsley@sociology.su.se
Sunnee Billingsley's profile page
Debora Birgier, Researcher
debora.birgier@sociology.su.se
Gitte Blomgren, Lecturer
gitte.blomgren@sociology.su.se
Christopher Bondy, Guest Researcher
christopher.bondy@sociology.su.se
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Maria Brandén, Docent, Researcher
Moa Bursell, Docent, Senior Lecturer
Magnus Bygren, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Inequality, segregation, causal inference, quantitative methods, intersectional theory
Chiara Comolli, Researcher
Research interests: Family dynamics, fertility behaviour, fertility intentions, economic uncertainty, inequality, wellbeing, life course studies, quantitative methods, causal inference, longitudinal data
chiara.comolli@sociology.su.se
Agostino Cristofalo, Guest Researcher
agostino.cristofalo@sociology.su.se
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Crusefalk, Lars, Temporary Senior Lecturer
lars.crusefalk@sociology.su.se
Johan Dahlberg, Affiliate Researcher
Research interests: Fertility, timing of birth, birth seasonality, education and fertility, social background and fertility
johan.dahlberg@sociology.su.se
Dalman Elien, Researcher
Sven Drefahl, Professor of Demography
Research interests: Longevity, life expectancy, mortality, determinants of mortality, global trends in health and mortality, causes of death, health and mortality inequalities
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
ann-zofie.duvander@sociology.su.se
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Helen Eriksson, Researcher
Research interests: Family demography, family policy, parental leave, administrative register data, mixed models
helen.eriksson@sociology.su.se
Anni Erlandsson, Affiliate Researcher
Research interests: discrimination, family sociology, fertility, gender, labor market inequality
anni.erlandsson@sociology.su.se
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Thomas Florén, Temporary Senor Lecturer
Mark Gortfelder, Researcher
mark.gortfelder@sociology.su.se
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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
michael.gahler@sociology.su.se
Kristina Hagqvist, Lecturer
kristina.hagqvist@sociology.su.se
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Lisa Harber-Aschan, Researcher
lisa.harber.aschan@sociology.su.se
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Barbara Hobson, Professor Emerita of Sociology
barbara.hobson@sociology.su.se
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
martin.hallsten@sociology.su.se
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Juho Härkönen, Professor of Sociology
Björn Ivemark, Researcher
Zeynep Melis Kirgil, Researcher
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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
Linda Kridahl, Docent, 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
Weiven Lai
Research interests: Family demography, migration, cohabitation, partnership dynamics
Zeth Isaksson, Affiliate Researcher
Research interests: Comparative politics, political economy, quantitative methods, and political sociology with a particular interest for historical political economy.
Wooseong Kim, Affiliate Researcher
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
fredrik.liljeros@sociology.su.se
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Anna Lund, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Cultural sociology, ethnography/qualitative interviews, arts, gender, sociology of education, multicultural incorporation, youth studies
Roberta Musuraca, Guest Researcher
roberta.misuraca@sociology.su.se
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Hernan Mondani, Researcher
Research interests: Social organizing, social mechanisms, social network analysis, life-course trajectory analysis, computational social science, sequence analysis
hernan.mondani@sociology.su.se
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
eleonora.mussino@sociology.su.se
Eleonora Mussino's profile page
Mona Margareta Mårtensson, Researcher, Docent, retired
mona.martensson@sociology.su.se
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Stefanie Möllborn, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Social demography, health, stratification, life course, social psychology, children and youth, gender, families
stefanie.mollborn@sociology.su.se
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Magnus Nermo, Professor of Sociology
Email: magnus.nermo@sociology.su.se
Gerda Neyer, Docent, Researcher
Research interests: Welfare state, fertility, gender
Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk, Researcher
Research interests: Family demography, family sociology, childbearing, work-family balance, labor market, employment, gender, marriage trends, family dynamics
sofi.ohlsson-wijk@sociology.su.se
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Livia Oláh, Docent, Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Family demography (partnership formation/dissolution, fertility), social policy, gender relations, social norms (values and attitudes), comparative research
Elena Pupaza, Researcher
Daniel Ritter, Docent, Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Revolutions, unarmed/nonviolent/civil resistance, social movements, political sociology, comparative historical sociology
Jens Rydgren, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Political sociology, party politics, voting behavior, nationalism, intergroup relations, ethnic conflict, social networks, belief formation
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”
Isaac Sasson, Docent, Guest Researcher
Johanna Schiratzki, Researcher, Professor of Welfare Law
Research interests: Child law, family law, welfare law, best interests of the child, maintenance, parental responsibility
johanna.schiratzki@sociology.su.se
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Mattias Smångs, Temorary Lecturer
mattias.smangs@sociology.su.se
Kristina Stenström, Researcher
kristina.stenstrom@sociology.su.se
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Charlotta Stern, Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Swedish labor market model, organization sociology, HR sociology, sociology of labor law
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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
mikaela.sundberg@sociology.su.se
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Signe Svallfors, Docent, Researcher
Email: signe.svallfors@sociology.su.se
Árni Sverrisson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Research interests: Technology in Society, digital Photography, innovation and entrepreneurship, social networks, visual Studies, environmental change, african development
arni.sverrisson@sociology.su.se
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Ryszard Szulkin, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
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
elizabeth.thomson@sociology.su.se
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Maria Tyrberg, Researcher
Lars Udehn, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Andrea Voyer, Professor in Sociology, Head of Department
Research interests: Cultural sociology, inequality, immigration, class, race and ethnicity, inclusion and exclusion, social change, social theory, computational sociology, qualitative methods
Matthew Wallace, Docent, Researcher
Research interests: Health, mortality, international immigration, migrants and the descendants of migrants, ethnicity, and inequality
matthew.wallace@sociology.su.se
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Rosa Weber, Docent, Associate Professor
Research interests: International migration, integration, second-generation migrants, social capital, immigration enforcement, gender and labour market integration, remittances
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
linda.weidenstedt@sociology.su.se
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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
Weiqian Xia, Researcher
Research interests: secularization and post-secularization, religious demography, religious diversity, ethnic and religious minorities, religion and politics.
Peter Åkerbäck, Director of Studies Undergraduate Level
Research keywords: New religious movements, sects, sectarianism, sociology of religion, new age movements, religion, tantrism (neotantra)
peter.akerback@sociology.su.se
Martin Önnerfors, Postdoctoral researcher
PhD students
Lovisa Backman
lovisa.backman@sociology.su.se
Abrar Bawati
Liliana Calderón
Research interests: Historical demography, genealogies, kinship, demographic microsimulation, mortality, data quality
liliana.calderon@sociology.su.se
Liliana Calderón's profile page
Daniel Dahl
Jasper Darin
Flore Debruyne
Research interests: family policy, social policy, parental leave, social norms, division of labour, gender equality, inequality on the labour market
flore.debruyne@sociology.su.se
Yaneth Itzel Díaz Juárez
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Xochitl Ellery Domingo Husted, Guest PhD student
xochitl.husted@sociology.su.se
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Daniel Enström
daniel.enstrom@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
johanna.finnstrom@sociology.su.se
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Elida Izani Ibrahim
Research interests: Polarization, lifestyles, cultural sociology, computational social science
Elida Izani Ibrahim's profile page
Kristin Jung Ståhle
Research interests: Cultural aesthetics, political theory, sexuality, pop culture
kristin.jung-stahle@sociology.su.se
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Tove Klasson
Sanni Kuikka
Research interests: Computational social science, machine learning, algorithmic bias, life course, intergenerational processes, neighbourhood effects, social policy, population register data
Ida Ljungström
Research interests: Aging, health and mortality, and demographic methods
ida.ljungstrom@sociology.su.se
Mimmi Aurora Lounela
Research interests: migration, uncertainty, labour market, precarious employment, fertility behaviour and intentions of immigrants, immigrant integration, gender differentials.
Pierre Nikolov
pierre.nikolov@sociology.su.se
Sonja Rasiwala Hägglund
sonja.rasiwala@sociology.su.se
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Nicole Sofia Rodriguez Neufeld
nicole.rodriguez@sociology.su.se
Nicole Sofia Rodriguez Neufeld
Miska Simanainen
Research interests: Cash transfers and incentives, poverty and income inequality, health and wellbeing, field experiments, register studies, tax-benefit microsimulation modelling
miska.simanainen@sociology.su.se
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Ane Tømmerås
Frankseco Yorke
Research interests: Refugees studies, immigration and integration, second generation immigrants education and health outcomes of refugees
frankseco.yorke@sociology.su.se
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Olivia Öhman Granström
Research and teaching assistants
Ella Björnsdotter
ella.bjornsdotter@sociology.su.se
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Edvin Borg
Maja Ekelund
Klara Nelin
Shamm Shirwan
Siri Tienken Söder
Leo Velin
Last updated: 2026-09-10
Source: Department of Sociology