{"id":23,"date":"2019-11-15T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:00:49","slug":"bonjour-tout-le-monde","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonjour\u00a0!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a father, husband, trail runner, and sociolgist. Currently, I work as an SNSF professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centre-lives.ch\/en\">Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES<\/a> at the University of Lausanne. I am also an associate professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.su.se\/swedish-institute-for-social-research\/\">Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)<\/a> at Stockholm University.\u00a0 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).<\/p>\n<p>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\u20132028) on this topic. In this talk from 2024 I present some of our thoughts and empirical results:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to measure equality of opportunity\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/irgsnejamK0?start=31&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usi.ch\/en\/education\/summer-winter-school\/ssm\/causal-analysis-with-observational-data\">https:\/\/www.usi.ch\/en\/education\/summer-winter-school\/ssm\/causal-analysis-with-observational-data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You also find some suggestions for great trail running routes in Switzerland on this website.<\/p>\n<p>My family and I live in Vevey, where the picture below was taken.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98\" src=\"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/files\/2021\/06\/MichaelGratzGS-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/files\/2021\/06\/MichaelGratzGS-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/files\/2021\/06\/MichaelGratzGS-1024x850.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/files\/2021\/06\/MichaelGratzGS-768x638.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/files\/2021\/06\/MichaelGratzGS.jpg 1445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001097,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/michaelgratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}