Carina Mood is a professor at SOFI. Her research interests include integration, poverty, inequality, intergenerational transmission of advantage, and the welfare and well-being of children and youth, and she is part of the Level-of-living team at SOFI.

She currently heads the FORTE-funded research program Interlocking inequalities: A multidimensional perspective on inequality in contemporary Sweden (MINQ), the VR-funded research project Intergenerational mobility: Shifting the focus, and the NORDFORSK-funded project IntegrateYouth. 

Carina Mood is also affilated to the Institute for Futures Studies and is active in the international CILS4EU project.