Mijail Figueroa González

I am a sociologist researching how working while studying at university shapes students’ life courses across Europe, and how risks and gains associated with student employment are socially stratified. I am the principal investigator of GROW-High Gains, High Risks, for Whom? A Holistic Approach to the Inequalities of Working While Studying Trajectories, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship-funded project that examines who benefits and who faces challenges and under what conditions. GROW began in September 2025 and will run for two years.

I am also an affiliated Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. Previously, I was the Project Manager of Mapineq – Mapping Inequalities through the Life Course, a Horizon Europe project coordinated by the University of Turku in Finland. Before that, I held postdoctoral researcher positions at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Université libre de Bruxelles.

I earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2019), where I explored the influence of social origin and academic programs on the motivations for working while studying among Catalan university students. My doctoral work included research stays at the Social Inequalities and the Life Course group (SILC) at VU Amsterdam, the Centre for International Research on Education Systems (CIRES) at Victoria University, and the Institut de Recherche sur l’Éducation (IREDU) at the University of Burgundy.