Pieter Vanhuysse MAE, 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. Pieter is also Senior Fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. He is a founding board member at CPOP-SAMF, the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics at SDU's Faculty of Business and Social Sciences.

In 2023, Pieter was elected as a Member of Academia Europaea, The Academy of Europe. He is also a member of the Roster of Experts at Population Europe, the network of Europe's leading demographic research centres, and of the international board of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at Erfurt University.

Pieter has published widely in comparative political economy, political sociology and political demography, focusing on public policies, welfare states, aging democracies, intergenerational resource transfers, and intergenerational equity, intergenerational sustainability, and intergenerational justice (SDGs 4, 10, and 16). He has been awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship for 2021-2022 to research sustainable societies and intergenerational justice in public policy.