About me

I am an associate professor (Docent) at the Centre for Economic Demography, Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden. I am affiliated with the Radboud Group for Family History and Historical Demography, Radboud University, Netherlands, where I obtained my PhD in 2019.

My research is about long-term changes in population health, the role of families, the changing disease environment, and the social health gradient. I use linked historical and contemporary population registers to study mortality and a range of health indicators, such as reproductive health, stature, morbidity, hospitalizations, and cause-specific mortality. I am PI on the research project “An Age Old Advantage?” funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) on exceptionally healthy ageing in families in Sweden and the Netherlands.

News

2024-03-06: A paper was accepted in Social Science and Medicine. Luciana Quaranta, Therese Nilsson and I studied fertility outcomes of women exposed to peaking infant mortality in their first year of life.

2023-10-25: New paper published in Health & Place, on the relation between childhood social neighborhoods and later-life cause-specific mortality. Find the paper here and a summary of the findings here.

2023-07-27: New paper published in Nature Communications, about how long-lived ancestors are related to healthy ageing and disease diagnoses in The Netherlands and Sweden. Find the paper here.

2023-05-02: I received the title of Docent (associate professor) at the Department of Economic History at Lund University.

2023-01-28: My daughter was born, and I will return to work in late spring.

2023-01-24: New paper published in Demography, about living standard, stature and mortality among orphans in the Netherlands. Find the paper here, and a summary on Twitter here.

2022-12-01: I’ll give a plenary talk at the ESHD conference in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 30-September 2nd 2023.

2022-09-22: A short interview with me and my colleagues Björn Eriksson and Finn Hedefalk was published in the university magazine. We talk about knowledge transfer and research funding. We’re that airplane that came back as we were all recipients of research funding in 2022. Find the interview here.