Academic Biography
Nicolas Sommet received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Lausanne in 2014. His doctoral work focused on the structural antecedents and the interpersonal consequences of competitive goals (Sommet et al., 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017; for a review, see Butera et al., 2019).
After a first year of post-doctoral training at the University of Geneva (2014-15), he received a UNIL/CHUV mobility fellowship to study at the University of Rochester, NY (2015-16). He kept working on achievement motivation (Sommet & Elliot, 2017), while developing a line of inquiry on the psychology of inequality.
Then, Nicolas held a Junior Lecturer position at the NCCR LIVES (2016-20) and obtained a SNSF Ambizione fellowship to study the psychological effects of income inequality (2020-present) and a SNSF Spark fellowship (co-applicant) to conduct to study the psychological effect of social class (2019-present).
During these years, Nicolas used cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental data to investigate the effects of residing places with high income inequality on outcomes such as psychological health (Sommet et al., 2018), perceived competitiveness (Sommet et al., 2019), interracial outcomes (Gordils, Sommet, et al., 2020), social and institutional trust (Kim, Sommet, et al, 2021), and academic cooperativeness (Sommet et al., 2022). He also published two (supposedly) funny primers on multilevel linear and logistic modeling (Sommet et Morselli, 2017, 2021).

Academic Positions
2020 - now. Lecturer Ambizione SNSF
Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research
University of Lausanne (CH)
2016 - 2020. Junior Lecturer
National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES
University of Lausanne (CH)
2015 - 2016. Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Psychology,
University of Rochester (NY, USA)
2014 - 2015. Post-Doctoral Fellow
Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education
University of Geneva (CH)
2009 - 2014. Research Assistant/PhD student
Laboratory of Social Psychology
University of Lausanne (CH)
Grants
MAIN APPLICANT
2020. SNSF Ambizione Grant – 48 months
The Effects of Income Inequality on Psychological Functioning
2020. SNSF Spark Grant – 12 months (extended)
Advancing Psychology of Social Class
2015. UNIL/CHUV Mobility – 18 months
The Psychological Consequences of Social Inequalities
RESEARCH PARTNER
2021. ANR (research partner) – 42 months
From money scarcity to income inequality – COGPOV