Biography

Juho Härkönen is Professor of Sociology, Dean of Postdoctoral Studies and Director of the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies at the European University Institute. He joined the EUI in February 2018, while on leave from Stockholm University. He took his PhD from the EUI in 2007, and was a postdoc at Yale before moving to Stockholm in 2009. He was visiting professor at the University of Turku (2010-18).

His research interests cover life course research, the causes and consequences of family dynamics and structure, social stratification, and health. His recent publications have covered antecedent and outcomes of divorce, social stratification in health, and educational inequality.

Juho Härkönen supervises dissertations on the above topics, but is also open to advising doctoral work more broadly on topics in sociology. Although he uses quantitative methods in his own work, he open to projects using qualitative methods as well.

As Director of the Max Weber Programme and Dean of Postdoctoral Studies, he is responsible for the overall management of the Programme.

Juho Härkönen is also co-director of the Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre, and of Florence Population Studies, and editor-in-chief of Advances in Life Course Research.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• CLIC

Completed

• Critical Life Events and the Dynamics of Inequality: Risk, Vulnerability, and Cumulative Disadvantage
• Technological inequality – Understanding the relation between recent technological innovations and social inequalities

Supervisees

• Jannik Track
• Jos Van Leeuwen
• Juho Hänninen
• Julie Fournier
• Lotta Lintunen
• Marco Santacroce
• Marcus Immonen Hagley
• Ariane Aumaitre

Mentor for

• Camille Portier
• Felix Schaff

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• HARKONEN, Juho; BILLINGSLEY, Sunnee; HORNUNG, Maria (2020), Divorce trends in seven countries over the long transition from state socialism : 1981-2004, Contribution to book
• HARKONEN, Juho; GROTTI, Raffaele (2021), Le conseguenze del divorzio per il benessere dei figli, Contribution to book
• SETTERSTEN, Richard A. Jr.; BERNARDI, Laura; HARKONEN, Juho; ANTONUCCI, Toni C.; DYKSTRA, Pearl A.; HECKHAUSEN, Jutta; KUH, Diane; MAYER, Karl Ulrich; MOEN, Phyllis; MORTIMER, Jeylan T.; MULDER, Clara H.; SMEEDING, Tim M.; VAN DER LIPPE, Tanya; HAGESTAD, Gunhild O.; KOHLI, Martin; LEVY, René; SCHOON, Ingrid; THOMSON, Elizabeth (2021), The Covid-19 pandemic : inequalities and the life course, Contribution to book
• JONSSON, Martin; HARKONEN, Juho; LJUNGMAN, Petter; NORDBERG, Per; RINGH, Mattias; HIRLEKAR, Geir; RAWSHANI, Araz; HERLITZ, Johan; LJUNG, Rickard; HOLLENBERG, Jacob (2021), Inequalities in income and education are associated with survival differences after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest : nationwide observational study, Article
• LINDBERG, Matti; NOLVI, Saara; HARKONEN, Juho; AATSINKI, Anna-Katariina; KARLSSON, Linnea; KARLSSON, Hasse; UUSITUPA, Henna-Maria (2021), Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations, Article
• HARKONEN, Juho; JALOVAARA, Marika; LAPPALAINEN, Eevi; MIETTINEN, Anneli (2023), Double disadvantage in a Nordic Welfare State : a demographic analysis of the single-parent employment gap in Finland, 1987–2018, Article

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