People | Leverhulme Centre For Demographic Science, Oxford

We put the people into demography!

The Centre has over 50 core staff members and students. We are continuing to grow as an international and interdisciplinary research Centre so please do check our jobs page regularly.

Faculty and Researchers

Melinda Mills

Director, Professor of Demography

Jennifer Beam Dowd

Deputy Director, Professor of Demography and Population Health

Ridhi Kashyap

Professor of Demography and Computational Social Science

Augustine Kong

Professor of Statistical Genetics

Charles Rahal

Associate Professor

Douglas Leasure

Senior Researcher and Data Scientist

Joshua Wilde

Senior Scientist and Researcher

José Manuel Aburto

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow / Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography at LSHTM

Romola Davenport

Research Professor, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Andrea Tilstra

Senior Researcher in Social Demography

Thomas Rawson

Senior Researcher in Geospatial Health and Digital Pandemic Preparedness

Andrea Aparicio Castro

Senior Research Fellow in Bayesian Digital Demography

Daniel Valdenegro

Senior Data Scientist

Morten Kjær Thomsen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Sander Wagner

Research Associate

Kim Stienstra

NWO Rubicon Fellow 2025-27

Ursula Gazeley

Postdoctoral Researcher

Aasli Abdi Nur

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Stefania Benonisdottir

Postdoctoral Researcher

Juliana de Castro Galvao

Associate Researcher

Pablo Geraldo Bastías

Associate Researcher

Prashant Poddar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Mary K. Roberts

Postdoctoral Researcher

Wen Su

Postdoctoral Researcher

Daniel Zazueta-Borboa

Postdoctoral Researcher

Emma Romell

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jasmin Abdel Ghany

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology

Wenlan Zhang

Research Assistant in Geospatial Data Science

Xiang Ao

Research Assistant

Rita Liu

Students

Vincent Straub

Neil Wary

Édith Darin

Rachel Ganly

Sai Campbell

Ekaterina (Kat) Degtiareva

Jiani Yan

Haohao Lei

Micol Matilde Morellini

Yan Liu

Xinyi Zhao

Naa Adjeley Mensah

Yao Fu (Cici)

Associate Members

Sir David Hendry

Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College

John Ermisch

Emeritus Professor of Family Demography and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College

David Kirk

Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College

Per Block

SNSF Eccellenza Professor at University of Zurich (LCDS Research Lecturer 2020-2022)

Cecilia Lindgren

Associate Member

Simon Myers

Associate Member

Bent Nielsen

Associate Member

Alice Reid

Professor of Demography, Co-Director of CAMPOP and Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Max Roser

Associate Member

Andrew Stephen

Associate Member

Giovanni Scotti Bentivoglio

Mark Verhagen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Rob Salguero-Gómez

Associate Member

Michael Chong

Associate Member and Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Aashish Gupta

Postdoctoral Associate, Social Science Division, NYU Abu Dhabi

Affiliate Members

Monica Alexander

Associate Professor of Statistics and Sociology

Ilya Kashnitsky

Senior Researcher

Jose Ignacio Carrasco

Lecturer in Sociology

Hampton Gaddy

DPhil Student at LSE

Alumni

Evelina Akimova

Assistant Professor, Purdue University (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2021-2024)

Liliana Andriano

Lecturer, University of Southampton (previously LCDS Postdoc Researcher)

Leo Azzollini

Assistant Professor, University of Trento (previously LCDS Postdoc Researcher)

Bastian Betthäuser

Assistant Professor at Sciences Po (previously LCDS Postdoc Researcher)

David Brazel

Senior Data Scientist at Color (previously LCDS Senior Postdoc)

Oriol Bosch Jover

Associate Director of Research at Verian (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2023-2024)

Casey Breen

Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science

Xuejie Ding

Research Fellow, Einstein Center Population Diversity (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2018-2024)

Katarzyna Doniec

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ben Elbers

Senior Data Scientist at Spotify (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2021-2022)

Per Engzell

Associate Professor, University College London (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2020-2022)

Ginevra Floridi

Lecturer, University of Edinburgh (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2021-2023)

Arun Frey

Data Scientist at RegLab (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2021-2023)

Mobarak Hossain

Assistant Professor, London School of Economics (previously LCDS Postdoc Researcher)

Fleur Meddens

Policy and data scientist, Netherlands Court of Audit (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2021-2022)

Joseph Millard

Data scientist at the Natural History Museum (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2021-2022)

Antonino Polizzi

Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Former DPhil Student and Research Associate)

Valentina Rotondi

Professor, SUPSI (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2019-2021)

Tobias Rüttenhauer

Assistant Professor, University College London (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2019-2022)

Kayla Schulte

Postdoc Research Associate, Imperial College London (previously LCDS DPhil student)

Jiaxin Shi

Postdoc Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison (LCDS DPhil student 2020-2023)

Ramina Sotoudeh

Assistant Professor, Yale University (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2021-2023)

Riley Taiji

Director at Statlog (LCDS Postdoc Research Fellow 2018-2020)

Daniela Urbina

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (LCDS Postdoc Researcher 2021-2023)

Bo Zhao

Postdoctoral Researcher

Charles Lanfear

Assistant Professor at University of Cambridge (LCDS Research Fellow 2021-2022)

Francesco Rampazzo

Lecturer in Demography

Professional Services

Hamza Shams

Grants and Centre Manager

Louise Allcock

Centre Administrator and PA to the Director