Luka MALESEVIC, BA MA
Research Assistant and Ph.D. Fellow

Paris Lodron University of Salzburg | Department of Sociology and Human Geography | Division of Sociology
Rudolfskai 42, A-5020 Salzburg

Room: 026

Luka Malesevic has been a research assistant and PhD fellow at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Salzburg since March 2026. His doctoral research investigates class and gender inequality within elite professional service firms. Focusing on the entry and early-career stages, he aims to bridge macro-stratification research and micro-organizational sociology to examine these dynamics as continuous structural processes. More broadly, his research interests include the sociology of work and organizations, social stratification, inequality and social mobility.

He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology, with a specialization in Population Dynamics, from McGill University in Canada. Prior to this, he completed an interdisciplinary Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Political Science and Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, including an academic exchange year at KU Leuven in Belgium.

Before joining the department, he worked at a data consultancy supporting community foundations and non-profits in Canada with digital transformation and systems redesign. As a research assistant, he worked on two pan-European projects (ENERGISE and CCC-Catapult), assisting with cross-national quantitative and qualitative analyses and policy reporting. He also has experience as a teaching assistant for courses on socialization, sociological perspectives and life-course analysis.