I am a father, husband, trail runner, and sociolgist. Currently, I work as an SNSF professor at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES at the University of Lausanne. I am also an associate professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. In the past, I worked at Bielefeld University, Germany, and at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. In 2015, I obtained my PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI).
I am interested in understanding how inequalities in modern societies are produced. My research team and I focus currently on the development of novel measures of inequality of opportunity. I am leading an SNSF/ERC Starting Grant project (2023–2028) on this topic. In this talk from 2024 I present some of our thoughts and empirical results:
Every summer, I teach a course on causal analysis with observational data at the Summer School in Social Science Methods in Lugano. The course will take place again in August 10-14, 2026
You also find some suggestions for great trail running routes in Switzerland on this website.
My family and I live in Vevey, where the picture below was taken.
