KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Dimitri Mortelmans
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Dimitri Mortelmans is Senior Full Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is head of the Centre for Population, Family and Health. His research concentrates on family sociology and sociology of labour. He has published on divorce, new constituted families, gendered labour careers and work-life balance. On qualitative methodology, he published the Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods and Qualitative Analysis with Nvivo. In demography, he co-edited Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution. The Family Kaleidoscope (Edward Elgar) and Lone parenthood in the Life Course (Springer).
Prof. Michelle Kelly-Irving
Michelle Kelly-Irving is an Inserm research director, and leads the EQUITY research team at the CERPOP. She is specialised in the field of life course epidemiology, with a focus on the mechanisms and processes involved in the production of health inequalities across the life course. She has developed a program of research to examine intersecting social-structural factors that drive the production of health inequalities operating through psychosocial, material and behavioural mechanisms from early life onwards.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Dr. Rick Settersten
Winner of the SLLS John Bynner Distinguished Scholar Award 2025
Richard (Rick) A. Settersten, Jr., PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Life Course and Human Development and Jo Anne Leonard Professor of Healthy Aging Research at Oregon State University. At OSU, he has served as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Interim Dean of the College of Health, Head of the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, and founding Director of the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children & Families. Before moving to OSU, Settersten was Professor of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University.
Prof. Matthias Studer
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Winner of the SLLS Harvey Goldstein Memorial Award 2025
Matthias Studer is an Associate Professor of quantitative methods for social sciences at the LIVES Center and Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Geneva. His research interests include quantitative methods for longitudinal data analysis, sequence analysis, gendered career inequalities, labor market and social policy evaluation.
