Niels Jul Nielsen (1963-) is PhD and DPhil in European Ethnology at the University of Copenhagen. From 1999 to 2009 he was curator at the Museum of Copenhagen. He has been a member of several museum boards and research councils. His main research themes are the establishment of industrial society, 20th century labour market development, and the major national and global changes that have characterised recent decades. The main focuses concern the connection between different forms of everyday work and family life, and their broader societal, governmental, and international contexts.