Deborah De Moortel

Deborah is professor at the Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She received her PhD in Sociology in 2016 (title: Mental well-being & employment quality in Europe. Analysing gender and social class differences from a cross-national comparative perspective). She worked at the Institute of Medical Sociology of the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany from 2017 to 2019. There she collaborated with the research group, which founded the Effort-Reward Imbalance model, to study the link between (involuntary) working hours and health.

Currently, she is a FWO senior postdoctoral researcher investigating the link between employment trajectories and mental health. Besides her postdoc projects, she has been involved in projects examining unemployment and mortality using the Belgian census, the transfer of knowledge about health prevention and promotion at the Belgian work, building a typology of self-employed in Europe, etc. She is co-coördinator the Horizon2020 funded project; EU-CoWork project. Building compassionate workplaces in Europe.