Fabian Lange holds the REPAP Chair of Economics at McGill University and currently serves as the Chair of the Economics Department at McGill University. He received his PhD in 2004 from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining McGill University in 2012, he was a member of the economics department at Yale University. He held visiting positions at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Oberlin College, and the European University Institute. Professor Lange is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research. His work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. In 2016, he was awarded the John Rae Prize of the Canadian Economics Association awarded every second year to the Canadian based economist with the best research record in the preceding 5 years. He has served as the co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and is an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics.

His research strives to develop and apply tools to understand the role of information frictions and search in shaping outcomes in the labour market and the organization of firms. Since 3/2020, he has used search models to better understand the performance of the US and the Canadian labor market during the COVID pandemic. This work lead him to work on identifying the factors that result in weak attachment to the labour market.