Olof Åslund is a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at Uppsala University and holds a part-time position at IFAU. He is the former Director General of IFAU (2010-2019). He is also a member of the Delegation for Migration Studies (Delmi) and has also been research leader at SNS.

His research interests include immigration and the labor market, the importance of the environment and networks in the labor market, and the policy's labor market effects. His research has been published in a number of international journals and he has also contributed to a large number of popular science books, reports and articles