Dr. Andreas Motel-Klingebiel holds a chair in Ageing and Later Life at the Division Ageing and Social Change, Department for Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. He is a Sociologist and Gerontologist, as well as the current vice-president of the Swedish Gerontological Society. Before accepting the position in Sweden, he was acting as Head of Research and Deputy Institute Director of the German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin, where he served as the director of the German Ageing Survey. He received a PhD in Sociology from Free University Berlin and taught Gerontology and Sociology at the University of Vechta and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has extensive experience in quantitative research and his research targets the interdependencies between social change, life courses, human ageing and old age with an emphasis on quality of life, diversity, distributions, social inequality and exclusion.
Francesco Barbabella, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Jill Chonody, Boise State University, USA
Helen Correia, Murdoch University, Australia
Shannon Doherty Lyons, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Matt Flynn, University of Leicester School of Business, UK
Peter Graf, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Amanda Grenier, McMaster University, Canada
Ronald A. Harris, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA
Lisa A. Hollis-Sawyer, Northeastern Illinois University, USA
Dan Kayama, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Pauline Lane, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
David Morris, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, Linköping University, Sweden
Yuko Nozaki, Sugiyama Jyogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan
Aoife Prendergast, Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown, Ireland
Laurent Reyes, UC Berkeley, USA
Matthew Sorenson, Texas A&M University, USA
İsmail Tufan, Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Turkey
Daniel Velez Ortiz, Michigan State University, USA
Kieran Walsh, Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and the NUI Galway, Ireland
Hiromi Wantanabe, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Perla Werner, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Scholars and practitioners who wish to contribute to the leadership and intellectual life of the Network are welcome to express their interest.