Michel

Oris

Michel Oris is professor of investigation at the Spanish Research Council, at the Institute of Economics, Geography, and Demography (Madrid), beginning in 2024. His investigation focus on the inequalities, on the understanding of the health and the conditions of life, on the interactions between the individual trajectories and the dynamics of the social structures, between the vulnerabilities and the life courses, in the past and in the present. He is active in historical demography, gerontology and life course studies.
Michel is a member of the scientific committees of the Campus Condorcet and the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences Humaines – Alsace. Executive secretary of the European Society of Historical Demography, he also participates in the scientific council of the projects “INEQKILL Social and spatial inequalities in mortality from the 19th century until today” (Belgium) and “Preservation of the autonomy of seniors within “intermediate habitats” versus “ordinary housing” (France, CNAV). He is a member of the Board of the Société de Démographie Historique and of various editorial committees and advisory boards for the Annales de Démographie historique, Advances in Life Course Research, Historical Life Course Studies, Revista de Demografia Historica, Revue Quetelet, and director of the series Population, Family, and Society - Population, Family and Society, Peter Lang, Berna, 38 vols. publicados.
Previously, Michel was an investigator at the National Science Foundation of Belgium (1985-2000), professor at the University of Ginebra (2000-2023), where he created in 2007 the Master and PhD in Socioeconomics, was director of the Interfaculty Center for Gerontology. (2007-2015) and vice-rector from 2015 to 2018. Member of the Ginebra State Pension Fund Committee (2015-2022), co-founder and vice-director of the National Centre of Competences in Research “LIVES. Overcoming vulnerability. Life course perspectives” (2010-2015), president of the Société de Démographie Historique (2010-2018), of the Association International des Démographes de Langue Française (2012-2022), of the Panel of Historical Demography of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (2011-2014).