People at AISCAF
Cluster leaders
Oskar Nordström Skans
Professor of Economics
Oskar Nordström Skans is Professor of Economics at Uppsala University since 2014. His research is centered on empirical studies of the labor market, in particular the role of labor market networks, the labor market impact of new technologies, and empirical studies of the microfoundations of macroeconomic theory. His research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Labor Economics and the Economic Journal. He is the author of several policy reports concerning the Swedish labor market. He is affiliated with the research centers IZA in Bonn and IFAU in Uppsala.
Moa Bursell
Associate Professor of Sociology
Moa Bursell is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Mälardalen University, and a research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies. In 2026, she will start a new position at Stockholm University. She co-leads the WASP-HS cluster “AI, Structural Change, and the Future of Work.” Her research interests include labor market integration, discrimination, stereotypes, and the sociotechnical transformation that the labor market is undergoing due the uptake of artificial intelligence. She is particularly interested in the consequences of AI-based automation for social inequality.
Magnus Lodefalk
Associate Professor in Economics
Magnus Lodefalk is Associate Professor of Economics at Örebro University and researcher at the Ratio Institute, and a Research Fellow with the Global Labor Organization. He co-leads AI-Econ Lab—an interdisciplinary and international research lab—and the WASP-HS cluster “AI, Structural Change, and the Future of Work.” His research examines how AI, trade and institutions shape firms, skills and wages, with recent work in International Organization, Research Policy, Journal of International Economics and Review of World Economics. He earned his PhD in economics from Örebro University.
Cluster Participants
Mats Engwall, Professor of Industrial Management
Mats Engwall is Professor of Industrial Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research focuses on how organizations manage technological and institutional change, with work on innovation, project-based industries, and socio-technical transformations.
Engwall has extensive experience in leading and participating in interdisciplinary research projects adressing issues of emerging technologies and business model innovation in relation to electrification, digitalization and the management implications of AI.
He has published in journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Research Policy, Technovation, Organization Studies, R&D Management, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, and International Journal of Project Management.
Peter Fredriksson, Professor of Economics
Peter Fredriksson is a Professor of Economics at Uppsala University. His research interest is labor economics, broadly defined. He has published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Labor Economics, AEJ: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Prize Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Georg Graetz, Associate Professor in Economics
Georg Graetz is associate professor in the Department of Economics at Uppsala University. He obtained a PhD in Economics in 2014 and a BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics in 2009, both from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on technological change, wage inequality, and the economics of education.
Lena Hensvik, Professor of Economics
Lena Hensvik is a Professor of Economics at Uppsala University. Her research is mainly focused on labor economics, with a special interest in questions related to wage differentials, employment and worker-firm matching. Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Labor Economics and Economic Journal.
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Guest professor in Economics
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås is a Guest Professor at Örebro University, and a Senior Associate with the Council on Economic Policies (CEP), Switzerland. Her research interest is AI-enabled digital transformation of the services industries, determinants of AI adoption and services trade. Recent work in Review of International Economics, International Economics, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, Frontiers in Robotics and AI. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bergen, Norway.
Anna Launberg, Assistant Professor in Management and Organization Studies
Anna Launberg is an Assistant Professor in Management and Organization Studies at Mälardalen University’s School of Business, Society, and Engineering. Her research interests center on organizational change and the impact of digital technologies on organizational life, with a particular focus on work and working life. Her current research projects focus on the integration of Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources Management, in relation to ethics, work environment and competence.
Eva Lindell, Associate Professor in Business Administration
Eva Lindell is an Associate Professor in Business Administration at Mälardalen University. Her research focuses on digitalization, organizational change, Human Resources Management, and power relations. Using discourse analysis, she explores how future work is imagined through visual and linguistic practices, emphasizing gender, rationality, and human-technology collaboration. Lindell contributes to the anthology Creating the Future of Work and publishes in international journals on labor studies and organizational transformation. Her work bridges theory and practice, offering insights into how digital futures are shaped within organizations and society.
Martin Längkvist, Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
Martin Längkvist, is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Örebro University. His research interests include machine learning, representation learning, and deep learning and applying them within interdisciplinary projects in fields such as medicine, material science, biology, and economics. He earned his PhD in Information Technology from Örebro University.
Lydia Löthman, Doctoral Candidate in Economics
Lydia Löthman is a doctoral candidate in Economics at Örebro University. She has previously worked at Bloomberg and the Riksbank, and has studied at Lund University and Stockholm School of Economics.
Lambros Roumbanis, Associate Professor in Sociology
Lambros Roumbanis is an associate professor of Sociology at Örebro University, and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My research is focused on human-AI interactions in organizational contexts, with a particular emphasis on how AI technologies (e.g., interview chatbots) impact on professional judgment and decision-making processes in job recruitment. I have an interest in theory development and have, for instance, written about algorithmic mediations and elaborated on the notion of meta-algorithmic judgment.