Torkild Hovde Lyngstad#
| Membership Number: | 6648 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://torkildl.github.io/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7830-9305 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo,
- 2011 - 2012 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo
- 2007 - 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo
- 2002 - 2007 Researcher, Statistics Norway
- 1999 - 2001 Research Assistant, Statistics Norway
- 2000 - 2001 Research Assistant, UN International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology of the family
- Social stratification
- Epidemiology
- Family demography
- Social science genetics
Honours and Awards
- 2019 - 2023 ERC Consolidator grant, European Research Council
- 2018 - 2019 Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Foundation,
- 2018 - 2019 VAM Mobility fellowship, Research Council of Norway
- 2014 Finalist, Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award, Centre for Families at Purdue University
- 2010 Demographer of the Year, Norwegian Demographic Society
