Andreas Motel-Klingebiel is Professor of Ageing and Later Life and Director of Research and Research Education in Ageing and Social Change at Linköping University. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Free University of Berlin and habilitated at the University of Vechta and the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he taught Gerontology and Sociology. Prior to his professorship at LiU, he was head of research, deputy institute director, and director of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) at the German Centre for Gerontology (DZA), a researcher in the Research Group on Aging and the Life Course (FALL) at the Free University of Berlin, and in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB). He is also chair of the research network 'Aging and Social Change', past vice-president of the Swedish Gerontological Society (2017-2020), past chair of the section 'Ageing and Society' in the German Sociological Association (2009-2013), and past chair of the European Sociological Association's research network 'Ageing in Europe' (2001-2007). He is and has been a board member, reviewer and expert for various organisations.
His main research interests are ageing and later life, social structure and inequality, life courses and social change. Since the 1990s, he has published on a wide range of topics from quality of life, work and retirement to inequality, mostly in a European comparative perspective, as well as on Germany and Sweden, and has many years of research experience with national and international survey and register data. His current research focuses on late working life and retirement, social relations, digitalisation, exclusion and discrimination from a life course and inequality perspective with a focus on productivity, inclusion, equity, resilience and sustainability.
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 such as 'The Return of Old-Age Poverty' and is the main editor of the 'Research Handbook on the Sociology of Ageing', which will be published in 2025.
