Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen
Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen is associate professor in social policy and head of the research group on population ageing. She holds a PhD, a docentship, and she habilitated. Her research interests are population ageing, work and retirement, life-courses, welfare policies, and research methods. She was a Marie-Curie fellow, chair of the Research Network on Ageing in Europe and on the executive committee of the European Sociological Association. She currently is vice-chair of the Research Network on Quantitative Methods, and board member of the journal “Work, Employment and Society”, and on the steering committee of the Finnish part of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Recent publications include “Capturing the diversity of working age life-courses: A European perspective on cohorts born before 1945” (Plos ONE), “Breadwinner models revisited: How a couple’s combined work histories influence the retirement transition” (Social Politics), and “What life-course research can contribute to futures studies” (Futures).