Pieter Vanhuysse, PhD (LSE) is Full Professor of Politics and Public Policy at SDU's Department of Political Science and Public Management and the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies, where he leads the Societies and Demographic Change research group. Pieter is also Senior Fellow of Business and Social Sciences at D-IAS, the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. He is a founding Board Member of CPOP-SAMF, the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics at SDU's Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, and is a member of the Roster of Experts at Population Europe, the network of Europe's leading demographic research centres.

Pieter has published widely in comparative politics and comparative political economy, focusing on public policies, welfare states, democracy in East Central Europe, population politics and demography, intergenerational resource transfers, and intergenerational equity, sustainability, and justice (SDGs 4, 10, and 16). He has been awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship for 2021-2022 to write a book on sustainable societies and intergenerational justice in public policy.