People
Faculty and Staff
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.
Deputy Director, LCDS
Deputy Director LCDS; Associate Professor Demography and Population Health (Oxford). Research spans bio-social science, mortality trends, social epidemiology, microbiome, infections & immune function
Jennifer Beam Dowd
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.
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.
Co-Leader Programme 2:
Environmental Context,
Demography & Climate Change
Christiaan Monden
Professor of Sociology & Demography (Oxford). Research spans
family size, inequality, wellbeing, mortality, marriage patterns.
christiaan.monden@sociology.ox.ac.uk
Doug Leasure
Senior Data Scientist.
Doug’s research spans human demography, population ecology, geosciences, and Bayesian statistics.
doug.leasure@sociology.ox.ac.uk
Per
Block
Departmental Research Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sociology. Research spans social network evolution, statistical models for inter-dependent data, social mobility, inequality, and social influence.
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.
Saul Newman
Research Associate. Research on kin selection and networks, agronomy, and the evolution of ageing.
Sander
Wagner
Research Associate.
Research focuses on the labour-market consequences of motherhood, as well as on how demographic processes affect wealth inequality.
Romola Davenport
Senior Research Fellow (Cambridge). Research spans health geographies,
historical demography, history of public health, urbanisation,
historical epidemiology, infectious diseases in European societies
c.1600 - 1945.
José Manuel Aburto
Newton Fellow at the Department of Sociology and LCDS (Oxford). Research spans population health, mathematical demography, health inequalities and ageing.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Nuffield Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research focuses on segregation, stratification, and social change. Focus on developing decomposition and simulation methods to understand the factors that are driving changes in racial and gender segregation.
Ben
Elbers
Bo Zhao
Postdoctoral researcher ERC CHRONO
Current research interests lie primarily in semantic and sentiment text analysis, robust and dynamic data management, data visualisation and prediction, and gamifications in research studies.
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.
Francesco Rampazzo's biography
Liliana
Andriano
Postdoctoral researcher. Research spans mortality, gender, education, spatial demography.
Ginevra Floridi
Nuffield Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Intergenerational transfers of money, co-residence between older parents and their young-adult children, transmission of inequalities across generations. Long-term care, inequalities in access to care, well-being of long-term care recipients. measurement and multivariate data analysis
Nicole Kapelle
Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology and Social Demography. Research focuses on family dynamics, gender inequality, within-couple inequalities, wealth stratification, and life course and human development.
Per
Engzell
Postdoctoral researcher. Research spans intergenerational mobility, origins of institutions, technological change.
per.engzell@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
Bastian A. Betthäuser
Postdoctoral Researcher. Research focuses on social inequality, how it accumulates over the life-course, how it is transmitted across generations, and the effectiveness of public policies in reducing it.
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.
Leo
Azzollini
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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Evelina Akimova
Postdoctoral researcher. Research interests include chronotype, mental health, and wellbeing, using methods from computational social science and statistical genetics.
Arun Frey
Postdoctoral researcher. Research spans migration, violence, and inequality, using methods from computational social science.
Daniela Urbina
Postdoctoral Researcher. Research spans family demography, gender inequality, education, and quantitative methods.
Ryohei
Mogi
Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology and Social Demography. Research spans family demography, formal demography, fertility, childlessness, mate search, and partnership formation.
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Andrea Tilstra
Postdoctoral Researcher ERC MORTAL.
Her research focuses on understanding how environmental shocks experienced by an entire society (e.g., period effects) influence two key demographic processes: fertility and mortality.
Joseph Millard
Postdoctoral researcher ERC CHRONO. Research spans chronotype, culturomics, computational ecology, conservation biology, and the effects of climate and biodiversity change on people.
Ramina Sotoudeh
Nuffield Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology. Research spans sociogenomics, sociology of culture, inequalities in health behaviors and outcomes. Using methods from computational social science and social networks.
ramina.sotoudeh@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
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.
Doctoral Students
Yan
Liu
Jiaxin Shi
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.
DPhil student in Sociology. Research interests include formal demography, population health, population aging, and social inequality.
Mark
Verhagen
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.
mark.verhagen@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Naa Adjeley Mensah
I am a first year DPhil Sociology student with the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. My primary research interest is in family demography, especially in the areas of family formation, dissolution, power, and gender inequalities. Additionally, I also have interest in population health research given my professional experience as a registered general and ophthalmic nurse.
Rachel Ganly
DPhil student in Sociology. Research interests are social stratification, family formation, work-family conflict and other topics in social demography more broadly.
Julia Knox
DPhil student in Sociology. Research interests are genetics and health inequities.
Xinyi Zhao
I am a first-year DPhil student in Sociology at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. My main research interests include applying digital and computational innovations (e.g. new types of data and methods) in demography and social science, with a particular interest in migration and gender disparity.
Antonino Polizzi
DPhil student in Sociology. Research interests include social stratification, health inequalities, and life course research.
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.
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@sociology.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.
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@nuffield.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
Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics
Augustine Kong
Professor Statistical Genetics (Oxford). Research spans statistics, molecular genetics, parent-child genetic data, methodology, statistical development
Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics
Cecilia Lindgren
Professor Molecular Genetics, Big Data Institute (Oxford). Research spans large-scale genetic datasets, sex differences, obesity.
Co-Leader Programme 4: Sociogenomics
Simon Myers
Professor Mathematical Genomics & Bioinformatics (Oxford). Research spans population and evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, stochastic methods, reproductive biology.
Co-Leader Programme 5: Causality
Richard
Breen, FBA
Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans causality, statistical methods, education, inequality and mobility.
Co-Leader Programme 7:
Ethics, Truth & Trust
Robin Evans
Associate Professor Statistics (Oxford). Research spans data linkage, graphical models, causal inference, latent variable models, algebraic statistics
Bent Nielsen
Professor of Econometrics (Oxford) Research spans time series, outlier detection, forecasting with age-period-cohort model
Max Roser
Senior Research Fellow (Oxford), Our World in Data. Research spans economic inequality, data visualization, Sustainable Development Goals
Co-Leader Programme 6:
Society & Sustainability
Co-Leader Programme 7:
Ethics, Truth & Trust
Madeline Sumption
MBE
David Kirk
Andrew Stephen
Director Migration Observatory (Oxford), member UK government Migration Advisory Committee. Research spans migration statistics, drivers international migration.
madeline.sumption@compas.ox.ac.uk
Professor Sociology (Oxford). Research spans demography of crime, experimental research, quantitative methods, urban sociology.
L’Oréal Professor of Marketing (Oxford). Marketing expert, research spans technology, digital and social media, consumer behaviour.
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
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
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.