Leen Vandecasteele

Leen Vandecasteele is an Associate Professor at the Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (LIVES) at the University of Lausanne. Her research focuses on social inequality, gender dynamics, family and employment structures, poverty analysis, and social policy through a life course perspective.

• Key Research Areas:
  • Social inequality and cumulative disadvantage
  • Gender and employment dynamics
  • Poverty trajectories and welfare state policies
  • Longitudinal quantitative analysis
  • Cross-national comparative studies

Her recent work examines unemployment insurance impacts on families, pandemic effects on social attitudes, and wellbeing measurement in Swiss panel data. She employs large-scale quantitative methods and comparative frameworks across European and global contexts.

Previously, she held a Junior Professorship at the University of Tübingen and conducted research at the European University Institute, University of Manchester, and Harvard's Inequality and Social Policy Program.