Luca Maria Pesando is a visiting scholar and assistant professor of sociology and demography at McGill University. He is interested in issues of family poverty, inequality, gender, stratification, intra- and intergenerational processes, technology adoption, and interactions between life-cycle events and human capital accumulation.

Research interests: Population dynamics; poverty and inequality; family and social stratification; gender; child health and well-being; education; digital technologies; big data; public policies; comparative work; sub-Saharan Africa; and low- and middle-income countries.