Marco Santacroce is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and a member of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. He is part of the ERC-funded FLIN research project, where he investigates how flexible working conditions affect family life.

Marco earned his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in 2025 and was a visiting researcher at Humboldt University (2024), the London School of Economics (2023), and Stockholm University (2022). His doctoral research investigated the formation and reproduction of educational inequalities within and between families.

Before his doctoral studies, he completed an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge (2014) and a BA in Economics at the University of Sussex (2013). From 2014 to 2021, he worked in the humanitarian and international development sector with the World Bank, several United Nations agencies (UNHCR, FAO, IFAD, WFP), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His work spanned a wide range of research projects related to poverty, nutrition, forced migration, and education across the Middle East and North Africa (Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon), sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Mozambique, South Sudan, Djibouti, Burundi, Comoros), and Latin America and the Caribbean (Haiti, Brazil) regions.