Biography

Filip Olsson is a Max Weber Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Stockholm University, with a background in psychology and political science. He was most recently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm. As a PhD student, he also spent time at Waseda University and UCLA.
His work broadly focuses on the contextual nature of implicit attitudes, studying how individuals internalize, use and reproduce various attitudes and beliefs beyond conscious control. To this end, he has used laboratory, field, and natural experiments to study phenomena such as implicit nationalism, right-wing populism, and prejudice. Much of this research focuses on how large-scale events—from terror attacks to the World Cup—affect prejudiced and nationalist sentiments.
At EUI, Filip will study how long-term trends and sudden crises shape the relationship between explicit and implicit attitudes, aiming to better understand the stability or malleability of such attitudes in shifting political and cultural landscapes.

Mentor

• Valentina, Di Stasio