Emanuela Struffolino

Dr. Emanuela Struffolino is an Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences, and holds a permanent guest position at the Department of Microsociology at Humboldt University Berlin. She has established herself as a leading scholar in social demography, poverty research, and sequence analysis methodology.

Her research interests focus on labor market dynamics, poverty (particularly in-work poverty), gender inequalities, social stratification, and social demography. Dr. Struffolino specializes in applying sequence analysis to study life course transitions, family demographic processes, and household economic risks across different national contexts, with particular attention to East and West German comparisons.

Her recent publications (2023-2024) demonstrate a consistent focus on poverty dynamics, household economics, and methodological innovations in sequence analysis. Her work spans multiple disciplines including sociology, demography, family studies, and social policy, with a strong emphasis on empirical analysis of longitudinal data.

• Associate Editor of the Journal of Family Research
• Deputy Editor of Demography
• Member of the editorial board of Sociologia del Lavoro
• President of the SAA-Sequence Analysis Association (since 2024)

Dr. Struffolino maintains an active research agenda with multiple ongoing projects examining household labor supply arrangements, family demographic processes, and economic risks during the COVID-19 pandemic. She regularly collaborates with researchers across Europe and has developed significant expertise in sequence analysis methodology, co-authoring a key reference text in the field and teaching workshops internationally.

Her professional website at https://emastruffolino.github.io/ provides additional information about her publications, research, and teaching activities.