Ignace Glorieux is full professor of sociology and head of the Sociology department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is a member of the TOR Research Group since 1983 and teaches courses on social theory, social inequality, sociology of time, leisure politics and methodology. He is involved in time use studies in Flanders and Belgium, in a longitudinal study on the transition from school to work and in different research projects on cultural practices and cultural participation. He is the president of the International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR), a member of the Taskforce 'Time Use Survey' at EUROSTAT and member of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth.