Andreas Motel-Klingebiel is a Gerontologist and Sociologist with a Habilitation from the University of Vechta and an additional venia legendi in sociology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He holds the Chair in Ageing and Later Life and is the Director of Research and Postgraduate Education in Ageing and Social Change at Linköping University in Sweden, leading several international research programmes, projects and networks.
Prior to accepting the chair in Sweden, he served as Deputy Director and Head of Research at the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA). He has a strong record in interdisciplinary research on ageing, the life course, and social change. He is also successful in obtaining external funding and publishing scholarly work. Publications include numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, scientific book chapters, scientific books, reports and transfer publications. The record of external funding includes national and international research projects and educational programmes.
He is currently PI of the research programme 'EIWO - Exclusion and Inequality in Late Working Life: Evidence for Policy Innovation Towards Inclusive Extended Work and Sustainable Working Conditions in Sweden and Europe' (Forte, 2019-01245) and the research network SIPET 'Sustainability, inclusiveness, productivity and equity and the transformation of Swedish working life courses' (Forte, 2022-009559). He is also Co-PI of the programme 'The Future of Intergenerational Solidarity in Europe after the Pandemic' (VolkswagenStiftung, ref. no. 9D251) and the project 'Personalised rehabilitation via novel AI patient stratification strategies' (Horizon Europe, GA 101080288). Previously, he was (co-)leader of several further research projects such as 'GENPATH - A life course perspective on the gendered pathways of exclusion' (Gender-NET/VR), the 'ITN EuroAgeism' (MSCA/EU Horizon 2020) and the German Ageing Survey (BMFSFJ), which he directed between 2005 and 2013.
In addition, he is the scientific editor of the Journal of Aging and Social Change and has published in journals such as the Journals of Gerontology, the European Journal of Ageing, Ageing and Society, etc., while his very first peer-reviewed journal publication was on 'Poverty in Old Age?', published in German in late 1993. He has (co-)edited various anthologies and is an editor of the 'Research Handbook on the Sociology of Ageing', which will be published in 2025.
