Alessandro Porrovecchio is Maitre de Conférences (Associate Professor) in Sociology of Health at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale and at the ULR URePSSS (Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société) laboratory. Previously, he worked at the Université de Lille and the Università degli Studi di Torino, and was visiting/invited lecturer at some European universities (Huelva, Sassari, Sapienza, Leuven, etc.).
Currently coordinator of ESA (European Sociological Association) Research Network 28 Society & Sport, his fields of interest mainly concern social health inequalities and social justice, and their links with physical activity, nutrition, and education. Further lines of investigation concern the epistemology of interdisciplinary research and the question of reflexivity in research.