Carmen Leccardi is Professor Emerita, Sociology of Culture, at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Here she has been Director of the PhD program in Applied Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (2010-16). Vice Rector for equal opportunities (2012-2013), she was Director of the 'Gender Cultures' Inter-university Research Centre (2013-19). Recently, the University of Melbourne awarded her an honorary scholarship in relation to her researches at the Youth Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. During nine years co-editor of the Sage journal Time & Society, from 2013 to 2015 she was President of the European Sociological Association. In 2023 she was elected President of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST).

Her field is the study of processes of cultural change, with a specific focus on time and temporality, gender and youth. Recent publications include Exploring New Temporal Horizons. A Conversation between Memories and Futures, Bristol University Press, 2023 (co-authored with P. Jedlowski and A. Cavalli).