Olga Leshchenko 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. She is part of the ERC-funded FLIN research project, in which she investigates how flexible working conditions affect employment outcomes.

Olga completed her PhD in Sociology at the Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality at the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 2025. She was a visiting researcher at Boston College (2025), University of Vienna (2024), and University of Kent (2023). Her doctoral research investigated how contextual factors shape the outcomes of flexible working arrangements.

Before her doctoral studies, she completed her Master's at the Free University of Berlin in 2021. Alongside her studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Berlin Social Science Center, University of Potsdam, and Free University of Berlin. She received her Bachelor's Degree from the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2018.

Link to her personal website: olgaleshchenko.com

• Flexible working arrangements and gender inequality in (un)paid work
• Determinants of flexible work use
• Flexible work policies and well-being outcomes
• Division of physical and cognitive domestic labour