Matti Sarvimäki

Matti Sarvimäki

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in June 2026

Research area
Migration Education Social Mobility

About Matti Sarvimäki

Matti Sarvimäki is Associate Professor of Economics at Aalto University and the Helsinki GSE, co-PI of the Education for the Future Flagship Center, and part-time Associate Research Professor at the VATT Institute for Economic Research. He is a labor economist whose research focuses on education, migration, and social mobility, sometimes in multidisciplinary collaborations.

Matti received his PhD from the Helsinki School of Economics in 2009. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at LSE and been a visiting scholar at MIT and UCL.