Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Chairholder of Household and Consumer Economics
Fruwirthstr. 48
Kavaliershaus 4
Room 116
70599 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)711/459-22863
Fax: +49 (0)711/459-23953
Consulting Hours
Any time on appointment (phone or mail).
Vita
Alfonso Sousa-Poza holds a Professorship in Economics at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Germany), and is the Manageing Director of the Institute for Health Care & Public Management. Alfonso Sousa-Poza is the coordinating editor of the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, an adjunct professor at the School of Economics and Finance at Xian Jiaotong University (China) and a research fellow at IZA.
Alfonso Sousa-Poza studied computer science at the University of Cape Town, and economics at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, from which he obtained his PhD in 1999. From 1996 until 2007 he was employed at the Research Institute for Labour Economics and Labour Law at the University of St. Gallen.
Affiliations
- Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn
- Editor, Journal of the Economics of Aging
Research interest
- Socioeconomic determinants of Obesity
- Subjective wellbeing Research
- Work and health
- Food insecurity