Dominique Joye is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lausanne. His work focuses on social science data infrastructures, survey methodology, comparative research, and the study of social and spatial inequalities. He has played a leading role in major international survey programmes and research infrastructures, including the European Values Study, the International Social Survey Programme, the European Social Survey, and Progedo.

Dominique Joye is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lausanne. Since joining Lausanne in 2006, he has been closely involved in developing data infrastructures for the social sciences, with a particular interest in internationally comparative surveys, data quality, and the comparability of social science data.

He has held prominent roles in several major international research programmes. He served on the executive and methodological committees of the European Values Study, chaired the methodological committee of the International Social Survey Programme for many years, and was a member of the methodological committee of the European Social Survey. He continues to chair the Scientific Board of Progedo, the French research infrastructure for social science data.

His research has also addressed social resources from a life-course perspective. He contributed to the creation of the NCCR LIVES centre, with a strong emphasis on social capital and comparative research. Earlier in his career, his work in urban sociology focused particularly on social and spatial inequalities and on the measurement tools and research infrastructures needed to study them.

Joye studied political science at the University of Geneva, where he obtained his PhD with a dissertation on the geography of referendums in Switzerland during the 20th century. After completing his doctorate, he conducted research in urban sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In 1999, he was appointed Director of the Swiss Data Archive for the Social Sciences (SIDOS) in Neuchâtel, a position he held until 2008, when he became involved in establishing the Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences in Lausanne.

Before becoming a full professor at the University of Lausanne in 2006, he was invited to teach at the universities of Geneva, Neuchâtel, and Bern, as well as at Sciences Po Paris. Across his academic career, his work has connected substantive questions about social inequality and social capital with the methodological foundations and infrastructures required for high-quality comparative social science research.