Team

Janet Gornick

Director
Email jgornick@gc.cuny.edu
Tel +1 (212) 817-1872
Fax +1 (212) 817-1674

Janet Gornick is a political economist and sociologist. She is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY) in the United States. She holds a BA in Psychology and Social Relations, a Masters in Public Administration, and a PhD in Political Economy and Government, all from Harvard University. She has held various positions at LIS for over twenty years, and has served as Director since 2006. As Director, she oversees all aspects of LIS’ work, including its administrative, management, development, and data production functions. She is also Director of the Luxembourg Income Study Center, a satellite office of LIS, located at CUNY.

Most of her research is comparative, across the industrialized countries, and concerns social welfare policies and their impact on family well-being and gender equality.

Markus Jäntti

Research Director
Email markus.jantti@sofi.su.se
Tel +46 8 162645
Fax +46 8 154670

Markus Jäntti is an economist. He is Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University in Sweden. He holds a PhD in Economics from Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. After a long association with LIS, he became Research Director in 2005. As Research Director, he advises the LIS data staff on data harmonisation, data quality, data production planning, and research methods.

His research centers on income and wealth inequality, and poverty and socio-economic mobility, with a focus on cross-national comparisons. He is especially interested in the importance of family background in the distribution of economic resources.

Thierry Kruten

Director of Operations and IT Director
Email kruten@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 22
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Thierry Kruten is an operations manager. He holds an MSc in Economics and an MSc in Information Technology, both from the University of Nancy in France. Prior to his time at LIS, he worked as an independent consultant for Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU). He provided assistance in the development of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and conducted organisation / IT projects for consulting firms. At LIS, he is responsible for managing IT operations and overseeing day-to-day operations.

Caroline de Tombeur

LIS Administrator
Email admin@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 20
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Teresa Munzi

Data Team Manager and Research Associate
Email munzi@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 23
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Teresa Munzi has a background in economics. She earned a degree in Economics from the University of Rome and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. Before coming to work at LIS in 2002, she served as an economist at the Economics Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels, at the Chief Economist Office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Investment in London, and at the UK Department for Education and Employment. At LIS, Teresa is mainly responsible for coordinating the work of LIS’ data team; in that role, she develops methodological guidelines, oversees harmonisation, and supports the data team in its daily tasks.

She also carries out research using the LIS data. Her research interests include the comparative study of welfare systems and their impact on poverty, inequality, and family well-being; and gender differences in employment and earnings.

Paul Alkemade

Data Expert and Statistician
Email alkemade@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 24
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Lindsay Flynn

Postdoctoral Scholar
Email flynn@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 29
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Lindsay Flynn is a political scientist. She holds a BA in political science from Albion College, and an MA and PhD in government from the University of Virginia.  Lindsay is a postdoctoral scholar at LIS.  Her research is funded through the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg and co-funded by the European Commission under the Marie-Curie COFUND scheme.  Her research interests revolve broadly around American and comparative social policy.  Lindsay’s dissertation explored the relationship between female employment and fertility across advanced industrialized democracies, and made a case for the inclusion of housing configurations in understanding employment-fertility dynamics.  She is currently expanding this research through her postdoc.  At LIS, Lindsay harmonizes data for the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database.  Before arriving in Luxembourg, Lindsay was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rhodes College where she taught a variety of courses, including social policy and research methods.

Päivi Kankaanranta

Microdata Expert
Email kankaanranta@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 28
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Marco Lilla

Data Expert and Research Associate
Email lilla@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 27
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Marco Lilla is an economist. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Consortium for Research and Continuing Education in Economics CORIPE Piemonte (Turin, Italy) and a PhD in Economics from the Marche Polytechnic University (Ancona, Italy), where he has been Research Fellow since 2006 and Lecturer in Microeconomics since 2009.

His main research interests are in labour economics, well-being issues and applied econometrics focusing mainly on income and wage inequalities issues related to education as well as labour market entrance of young workers. As an expert consultant, he gave courses for several institutions in applied economics, statistics and econometrics with Stata^©.

Jörg Neugschwender

Data Quality Coordinator and Research Associate
Email neugschwender@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 26
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Jörg is an economic sociologist. He holds a Master’s degree in Social Policy from the University of Bremen, Germany and a Diploma in Economics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Before joining the LIS data team,  he worked as a Research Associate in a research project on governance of supplementary pension systems across Europe.

His research focuses on institutional path developments of old-age income systems and its effects on inequalities among current retirees, particularly how these interactions vary across socioeconomic and sociodemographic groups within and across countries.

Piotr Paradowski

Data Expert and Research Associate
Email paradowski@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 21
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Piotr Paradowski is a political economist. He has comprehensive knowledge of quantitative social science methods, including panel data analysis, survival analysis, multilevel models, and categorical and limited dependent variables models. At LIS, he serves as a member of the data staff; he also conducts research using the LIS data.

Piotr conducts interdisciplinary research with the focus on income and wealth distributions as they relate to economic inequality, welfare state politics, and voting behaviour.

Carmen Petrovici

Data Expert and Research Associate
Email petrovici@lisdatacenter.org
Tel +352 26 00 30 25
Fax +352 26 00 30 30

Carmen is a social policy analyst specialised in labour market. She holds a PhD from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Faculty of Social Sciences, Methodology and Statistics department and has a background in comparative social policy (MA in International Social Policy Analysis from Leuven University, Belgium), public policy and governance as well as political sciences.

Her research is focusing on labour market participation from a gender perspective, institutional, life course and cultural determinants of the labour market participation in later life and early retirement from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

Caroline Batzdorf

Director of Development
Assistant Office Director – LIS Center
Email cbatzdorf@gc.cuny.edu
Tel +1 (212) 817-1874
Fax +1 (212) 817-1674

Caroline has a background in comparative literature and investment banking.  She holds an M.A. in French and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. At LIS, Caroline is responsible for fundraising, outreach, and development. In addition, she oversees the administrative and financial matters at the LIS Center at The Graduate Center of the City of New York.

Natascia Boeri

Research Associate and Project Coordinator
Email nboeri@gc.cuny.edu
Natascia is a doctoral student in Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).

Amalia Leguizamón

Research Associate and Latin American Outreach Coordinator
Email aleguizamon@gc.cuny.edu
Amalia is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).

Laurie Maldonado

Research Associate
Email lmaldonado@gc.cuny.edu
Laurie is a doctoral student in Social Welfare at UCLA.

Sarah Kostecki

Research Associate
Email skostecki@gc.cuny.edu
Sarah is a doctoral student in Political Science at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).

Emily Nell

Research Associate
Email enell@gc.cuny.edu
Emily is a doctoral student in Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).

Berglind Hólm Ragnarsdóttir

Research Associate
Email bragnarsdottir@gc.cuny.edu
Berglind is a doctoral student in Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).

Rebecca Rasch

Research Associate
Email rrasch@gc.cuny.edu
Rebecca is a doctoral student in Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).

Lee Rainwater

Founder and Research Director Emeritus

Tim Smeeding

Founder and Director Emeritus