Marja Aartsen
Marja Aartsen, PhD, works as research professor at NOVA Norwegian Social Research at Oslo Metropolitan University. She is sociologist and social gerontologist and specialized in longitudinal research on social relations, social exclusion, loneliness, and cognitive functioning in the second half of life. She is interested in social issues related to aging in place and active or successful ageing. She is currently co-leading the research project AMASE-A Multidimensional Approach to Social Exclusion – health consequences for ageing populations, together with the University of Bucharest, and the National Scientific Research institute for Labor and Social Protection in Bucharest. Previous research projects and collaborations include social inequalities in ageing (SIA), gendered pathways to exclusion from social relations (GENPATH), reducing old-age social exclusion (ROSENET). She served as one of the Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal of Ageing until the summer 2022.