Core Team
Centre Director, Co-leader Programme 4:
Sociogenomics
Melinda Mills, MBE, FBA
Centre Director, Nuffield Professor of Sociology (Oxford). Research spans
genetics, computational demography, diversity, statistics, environmental measures, fertility, assortative mating
melinda.mills[at]nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Co-Leader Programme 1:
Digital & Computational Science
Ridhi
Kashyap
Associate Professor Social Demography (Oxford). Research spans migration, gender, mortality, ethnicity, digital demography, micro-simulation, agent-based models, big data
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ridhi.kashyap[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
Deputy Director, LCDS
Jennifer Beam Dowd
Deputy Director LCDS; Associate Professor Demography and Population Health (Oxford). Research spans bio-social science, mortality trends, social epidemiology, microbiome, infections & immune function
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jennifer.dowd[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
Charles
Rahal
Departmental Research Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Data Science. Research spans demography, sociology, civic technology, applied econometric methods and inequality, typically with 'big' and\or unstructured data.
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charles.rahal[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
José Manuel Aburto
Newton Fellow at the Department of Sociology and LCDS (Oxford). Research spans population health, mathematical demography, health inequalities and ageing.
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jose-manuel.aburto[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
Per
Engzell
Postdoctoral researcher. Research spans intergenerational mobility, origins of institutions, technological change.
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per.engzell[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
British Academy Global Professor
Francis Dodoo
British Academy Global Professor, LCDS and Nuffield College. Research spans gender, power and sexual decision-making, demographic and health outcomes associated with urban poverty, inequality issues among Africans in the diaspora, and building research capacity in Africa.
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Joining LCDS in January 2021
Per
Block
Departmental Research Lecturer. Research spans the sociology of networks, social influence, statistical modeling, evolution of interpersonal relations, social mobility and segregation.
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per.block[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
Valentina
Rotondi
Postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Rotondi is a social scientist with training in applied economics and econometrics and a focus of research on development, and the interactions between population, development, and technological change. Over the next years, she plans to study the neuroeconomic implications of transitioning into parenthood
Liliana
Andriano
Postdoctoral researcher. Research spans mortality, gender, education, spatial demography.
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liliana.andriano[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
Francesco Rampazzo
Career Development Fellow in Marketing and Consumer Demography at LCDS and Saïd Business School. Research interests include digital and computational demography with applications in fertility, migration, transition to adulthood, and survey research.
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David
Brazel
Senior research associate. Research interests include behavioral genetics, scalable digital phenotyping methods, and the integration of geospatial data.
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david.brazel[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
Xuejie
Ding
Postdoctoral researcher. Research adopts a biosocial approach integrating life course perspective and fundamental causes theory, to bridge the disjointed knowledge on contextual, social and biological influences on health.
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xuejie.ding[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
Leo
Azzollini
Mark
Verhagen
Postdoctoral Research Officer at LCDS, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at Oxford Martin School, and in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), (Oxford). Research interests include the interplay between socio-economic inequalities and demographic behaviour, with a geographic focus on OECD countries, and more broadly the causes and consequences of inequalities from different social-scientific perspectives, spanning sociology, demography, economics, and political science.
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DPhil student in Sociology. Research interest focuses on bridging the gap between advances in statistical computing, notably from the domains of pattern recognition and machine learning, and classical empirical approaches predominantly applied within the social sciences.
Yan
Liu
DPhil student in Sociology. Research focuses on the impact of social and environmental factors on cognitive function and how the impact might vary by genetic susceptibility. She is also interested in sex differences in health, health-care quality, health-care reform in China.
Kayla
Schulte
DPhil in Sociology. Research focuses on the collection and communication of local air pollution data. She is also interested in the implementation of participatory research methods for local air quality management.
Associate Members
Co-Leader Programme 2:
Environmental Context,
Demography & Climate Change
David Hendry, Kt, FBA
Professor of Economics, Co-director Climate Econometrics (Oxford). Research spans econometric methods, theory, and modelling, computing, applications, forecasting
david.hendry[at]nuffield.ox.ac.uk
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Co-Leader Programme 2:
Environmental Context,
Demography & Climate Change
Christiaan Monden
Professor, Head of Department of Sociology (Oxford). Research spans
family size, inequality, wellbeing, mortality, marriage patterns.
christiaan.monden[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
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Co-Leader Programme 3: Inequality & Diversity
John Ermisch, FBA
Professor Family Sociology (Oxford). Editor Population Studies. Research spans family economics, intergenerational transfers and transmission
john.ermisch[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
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Co-Leader Programme 3: Inequality & Diversity
Jan O. Jonsson
Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans intergenerational processes, children’s wellbeing, educational inequality, migration and ethnic integration
janne.jonsson[at]nuffield.ox.ac.uk
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Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics
Cecilia Lindgren
Professor Molecular Genetics, Big Data Institute (Oxford). Research spans large-scale genetic datasets, sex differences, obesity
celi[at]wel.ox.ac.uk
Co-Leader Programme 3: Inequality & Diversity
Nan Dirk de Graaf
Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans social stratification, educational attainment, social mobility, political sociology, religion
nan.degraaf[at]nuffield.ox.ac.uk
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Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics
Simon Myers
Professor Mathematical Genomics & Bioinformatics (Oxford). Research spans population and evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, stochastic methods, reproductive biology
myers[at]stats.ox.ac.uk
Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics
Augustine Kong
Professor Statistical Genetics (Oxford). Research spans statistics, molecular genetics, parent-child genetic data, methodology, statistical development
augustine.kong[at]bdi.ox.ac.uk
Co-Leader Programme 5: Causality
Richard
Breen, FBA
Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans causality, statistical methods, education, inequality and mobility
richard.breen[at]nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Robin Evans
Associate Professor Statistics (Oxford). Research spans data linkage, graphical models, causal inference, latent variable models, algebraic statistics
evans[at]stats.ox.ac.uk
Co-Leader Programme 6:
Society & Sustainability
Madeline Sumption, MBE
Director Migration Observatory (Oxford), member UK government Migration Advisory Committee. Research spans migration statistics, drivers international migration
madeline.sumption[at]compas.ox.ac.uk
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Co-Leader Programme 7:
Ethics, Truth & Trust
Luciano Floridi
Professor Philosophy of Ethics of Information, Director Digital Ethics Lab (Oxford). Research spans information and computer ethics, philosophy of technology
luciano.floridi[at]oii.ox.ac.uk
Bent Nielsen
Professor of Econometrics (Oxford) Research spans time series, outlier detection, forecasting with age-period-cohort model
bent.nielsen[at]nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Co-Leader Programme 7:
Ethics, Truth & Trust
David Kirk
Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans demography of crime, experimental research, quantitative methods, urban sociology
david.kirk[at]sociology.ox.ac.uk
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Co-Leader Programme 1:
Digital & Computational Science
Alice
Reid
University Lecturer (Cambridge). Research spans geography, historical demographer, infant, early child and maternal mortality and fertility in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
alice.reid[at]geog.cam.ac.uk
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Max Roser
Senior Research Fellow (Oxford), Our World in Data. Research spans economic inequality, data visualization, Sustainable Development Goals
max.roser[at]oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Co-Leader Programme 7:
Ethics, Truth & Trust
Andrew Stephen
L’Oréal Professor of Marketing (Oxford). Marketing expert, research spans technology, digital and social media, consumer behaviour
andrew.stephen[at]sbs.ox.ac.uk
Janine Aron
Senior Research Fellow, INET (OMS), (Oxford). Research spans monetary and exchange rate policy, macroeconomics and financial stability, mainly but not only in the emerging market context.
janine.aron[at]economics.ox.ac.uk
John Muellbauer
Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College and INET (OMS), (Oxford). Evidence-based research in macroeconomics, household behaviour and housing, with a focus on interactions between financial markets and the real economy.
john.muellbauer[at]nuffield.ox.ac.uk