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Dr. Alexander Seifert is a sociologist and gerontologist interested in the contextual factors of aging. He is a division manager of the Research Department at the Centre of Competence for Gerontology at the University of Zurich. Furthermore, he works at the School of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in Olten. His research interests include social science approaches to the topics of age (aging), housing, technology/digitization, and lifestyles. For example, he conducted the Swiss national studies “Digital Seniors” (2010, 2015, 2020) in Switzerland and explored the subjective feelings of social exclusion regarding the non-use or less-use of modern technologies and the internet within a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded national study. He is competent in both qualitative and quantitative methods with a focus on mobile data collection with smartphones in recent years. Alexander Seifert is accustomed to working in interdisciplinary and international projects and has been involved in numerous successful project proposals. He has been a member of the Socio-Gerontechnology Network since 2018.