I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Demographic Research (DEMO), University of Louvain (UCLouvain). I hold an MSc in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento and a PhD in Demography from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW) and the University of Groningen (RUG).

I am a life course scholar working at the intersection of demography, sociology, and gerontology. My research examines how gender and other social inequalities in health emerge across and between the life courses of individuals living in divergent and changing institutional contexts. I focus mainly on demographic events, work and family responsibilities, and social networks as drivers of these inequalities.

I specialise in the analysis of large-scale survey data and full-population register data, using longitudinal and quasi-experimental designs. My work has been published in outlets such as Demography, Social Science & Medicine, European Sociological Review, American Journal of Epidemiology, and The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. See my full CV here.


If you would like to contact me, the best way is through email:

damiano.uccheddu@uclouvain.be