European Journal of Ageing - About the Editors

Editors-in-Chief

Karen Glaser

Professor Karen Glaser has been at King’s for more than 20 years and was the Director of the globally-respected Institute of Gerontology, in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine. Founded in 1986, the Institute is at the forefront of multi-disciplinary research and teaching, acting as a bridge between the social and clinical sciences.

Originally from the US, Karen came to Britain after finishing her PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan, to work on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded project, ‘Intergenerational Relationships and Household Change.’

Matthias Kliegel

Prof. Matthias Kliegel is a cognitive aging researcher who has received his PhD in psychology from the University of Heidelberg in 2002. In 2007, he was appointed Full Professor and Chair of Lifespan Developmental Psychology at the University of Dresden. Since 2011 Matthias Kliegel has been working as Full Professor and Chair of Cognitive Aging at the University of Geneva, where he also is the director of the University of Geneva's Interfaculty Center of Gerontology (CIGEV). His research is concerned with the development and plasticity of higher order cognitive functions such as intentional behavior and cognitive control as well as their neuro-cognitive mechanisms across the human lifespan. As for the European Journal of Ageing, Prof. Kliegel plans to establish EJA as one of the leading journals in interdisciplinary aging research systematically crossing disciplinary boundaries, both conceptually and empirically.

Morten Wahrendorf

Morten Wahrendorf works at the Institute for Medical Sociology of the University Düsseldorf, Germany, where he leads the working group on “Work & Health”. He has previously worked at the International Centre For Life-course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) at University College London. His main research areas are work stress, health inequalities, life course epidemiology, ageing, and the comparative analyses of longitudinal cohort studies. He leads several projects that investigates both individual and national predictors of working conditions across the life course and their long-term effects on health at older ages. His research expertise spans different disciplines-including public health, epidemiology, statistics and sociology. He hopes that the European Journal of Ageing develops new and extend existing lines of research on ageing based on high quality interdisciplinary research.

Associate Editors

Thorsten Kneip

Thorsten Kneip is Academic Coordinator at the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. Prior to his current position, he served as Assistant Coordinator for the Survey of health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). His research has been largely interdisciplinary and life-course oriented, with a primary interest in family and household decision making, social and health inequalities, and policy evaluation.

Héctor Pifarré i Arolas 

Héctor Pifarré i Arolas is research director of the Center for Research in Health and Economics. His general research interests are in substantive topics within population economics, such as the determinants and measurement of health and mortality inequality, fertility, and the implications of population age structures.
He defended his dissertation on health and demographic economics in the Toulouse School of Economics (Université Toulouse I Capitole) in 2015, and spent the next three years as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Giorgio Di Gessa 

Giorgio Di Gessa works in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL) and is a member of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) research team group. Giorgio’s research focuses primarily on complex relationships between social engagement (including paid work, volunteering, and provision of informal care to partners and grandchildren) and mental and physical health in mid and later life. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Giorgio has also investigated the impact of COVID-19 and associated viral suppression measures on mental health, socio-economic outcomes, and access to healthcare.