Aske Juul Lassen

Aske Juul Lassen is an Associate Professor in Ethnology at the SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen, and is engaged with the Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRe). His research focuses on ageing, retirement transitions, senior worklife, and ageism, examining how age shapes social interactions and categorizations.

With a Ph.D. in Ethnology from the University of Copenhagen (2014), Dr. Lassen approaches retirement not as a single event but as a complex process where individuals substantially change their everyday life while reflecting on identity, future, past, death, and life. His work bridges humanities and health sciences through ethnographic methods and cultural analysis.

His research portfolio includes studies on retirement rhythms, materializations of active ageing, and the cultural constructions of age. Publications like 'Retirement rhythms: Retirees' management of time and activities in Denmark' (2020) and 'New Bikes for the Old: Materialisations of Active Ageing' (2020) demonstrate his focus on the temporal and material dimensions of aging experiences.

• Kirsten Avlund Prisen 2014 (awarded by the Danish Society for Gerontology)

Dr. Lassen leads significant projects including 'Competence development 55+' and 'Senior practice - mental health late in the worklife' supported by Velliv Foreningen. He serves on the Nordic Gerontological Federation's scientific committee and the editorial board of Tidsskriftet Gerontologi, while also contributing to public discourse through numerous media appearances on aging-related topics.