Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen, PhD, associate professor, research group leader
research: population ageing, old age, life-courses, welfare policies, economic crisis, simulations
personal homepage, recent publications
Zhen Jie Im, PhD student
research: electoral politics, political competition, welfare state, labour market dualization, economic globalization, digitalization
recent publications
Visa Rantanen, PhD student
research: labour activation policies, governmentality, global political economy, pension systems, population ageing
Recent activities
Jawaria Khan, PhD student
research: knowledge migrants, globalization, brain drain
Recent activities
Tuukka Niemi, PhD student
research: retirement age, life-courses, futures research, family policies
Teemu T. Kemppainen, postdoctoral researcher
research: aging, critical sociology, spatial analysis, unemployment, urban sociology, welfare state, well-being
recent publications
Juho Sarasma, student assistant
research interests: retirement planning, sustainability
Petteri Kolmonen, student assistant
research interests: self-employment in old age, inequality, globalization, social stratification
Visiting researchers
2018 Gijs Dekkers, PhD, Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium
2017 Marcel Leppee, PhD, Institute for Healthy Ageing, Zagreb, Croatia
Former group members
Aasa Karimo, student assistant
Motoko Ishikawa, PhD student