Researchers

Population Ageing researchers.

Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen, PhD, associate professor, research group leader

research: population ageing, old age, life-courses, welfare policies, economic crisis, simulations

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Zhen Jie Im, postdoctoral researcher

research: electoral politics, political competition, welfare state, labour market dualization, economic globalization, digitalization

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Visa Rantanen, PhD student

research: retirement planning, digitalization, population ageing, intergenerational politics

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Jawaria Khan, PhD student

research: knowledge migrants, globalization, brain drain

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Teemu T. Kemppainen, postdoctoral researcher

research: aging, critical sociology, spatial analysis, unemployment, urban sociology, welfare state, well-being

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Juho Sarasma, student assistant

research interests: retirement planning, sustainability

Petteri Kolmonen, student assistant

research interests: self-employment in old age, inequality, globalization, social stratification

Xiao Jinyi, M.Sc., affiliated researcher

research interests: retirement, labour market, industrial relation, downsizing, China

Sergio Tavares, PhD, affiliated researcher

research: Service Designer Lead and advisor at iconic design group frog, a part of Capgemini Invent. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Culture and Technology and is the co-founder of Geist, an independent research initiative that investigates cultural values.

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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