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Demography

Demography is about you, me, about us. It is about our lives, and about how we make sense of our lives. We are born, grow up, develop relationships and sometimes split up again, have children or do not have them, we move between places, sometimes between continents, we age, healthily or not, and then we die. The life course approach is central to the research of the Population Research Centre and also to our teaching. We study the events that take place during our lives against the background of the socio-cultural and spatial context, and are interested in their consequences for well-being.

Contact via secretaries Mirjam Berghuis and Eliza van der Ploeg

prof. dr. ir. H.H. (Hinke) Haisma
Function
Prof Child Nutrition and Population Health, Rosalind Franklin Fellow, Head of Dept Demography
Expertise
Child nutrition, Global Health, Capability Approach, Inequalities
M. (Mirjam ) Berghuis
Function
Management Assistant Demography
E.S. (Eliza) van der Ploeg
Function
Management Assistant
S.A. (Stephen) Adaawen, Dr
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Migration, Demography, Climate/Environmental Change, Remittances, Rural Development, Migration Governance
R.M. (Rolando) Gonzales Martinez, PhD
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Expertise
Rolando Gonzales Martinez is a researcher at Oxford University and a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences in the University of Groningen, where he applies machine learning and deep learning to survey data combined with satellite images. He has a PhD from the Universitetet i Agder (Norway) and a MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Alcala (Spain). His dissertation was framed on the anarchist theory of knowledge of Feyerabend and discussed the differences between theory-driven and data-driven science, with applications to nanofinance groups in Africa. Previously, he was a post-doctoral data scientist at CASUS (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany), a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a postdoctoral consultant for the University of Groningen, the Centre for Demographic Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the University of Amsterdam, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), AjoCard (digital finance in Africa) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI, Oxford University). The research interest of Dr. Gonzales Martinez are sustainable socio-economic development, early detection of cancer with artificial intelligence (AI), biologically-inspired artificial intelligence, machine-learning and deep learning, Bayesian methods, catastrophe modelling, social vulnerability to natural disasters, epistemology, spatial and spatio-temporal methods, and the role of AI in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic studies.
dr. B. (Billie) de Haas
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Assistant Professor
Expertise
Sexuality education; reproductive autonomy and decision-making, sexual and reproductive health and rights; qualitative research; Uganda
prof. dr. F. (Fanny) Janssen
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Honorary Professor "Mortality and Longevity" (Faculty of Spatial Sciences) & Grant Proposal Trainer (University Services)
Expertise
mortality, ageing, mortality forecasting, health determinants, lifestyle, smoking, sex and  country differences
prof. dr. L.B. (Louise) Meijering
Function
Professor in Health Geography
Expertise
Themes: place attachment, home-making, well-being, mobility, health literacy
Target groups: older adults, stroke survivors 
Methodology: qualitative research, participatory approach, geographical analyses (GIS)
prof. dr. C.H. (Clara) Mulder
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Professor of Demography
Expertise
Internal migration, residential mobility, households, family relations
dr. A.T. (Bettie ) Oosterhoff
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Assistant Professor
Expertise
Health Literacy in Cultural Context; Qualitative Research
A.P.P. (Adrien) Remund, Dr
Function
Assistant Professor
Expertise
mortality, health, migration, historical demography, young adults
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PhD-student
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Honorary Professor of Migration and the life course
Expertise
International migration, demographic characteristics and behaviour of migrant populations, family formation, intergenerational relationships
dr. R. (Roselinde) van der Wiel
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Assistant Professor Social Demography
Expertise
Family demography
prof. dr. L.J.G. (Leo) van Wissen
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Professor Economic Demography

PhDs

M.A. (Mark) Aviisah
Function
PhD student
Expertise
Qualitative & quantitative research; Population health; Ageing; Older adult health & well-being
R. (Rupankar ) Dey
Function
PhD student
Expertise
Development Studies, Social Policy, Women & Gender Rights, Disability Rights, Sexualities, Masculinities, LGBTQ+ Rights, Body Autonomy, Abortion, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRHR) & Family Planning, and Public Health | Capability Approach, Intersectionality, and Decoloniality
D.R. (Dorien) de Jong, MSc
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PhD Candidate
Expertise
Demography and Sociology
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Function
PhD student
B.J. (Bart) Roelofs
Expertise
Health geography; GIS
Z. (Zeinab) Sattari Najafabadi, MSc
Function
Data steward
Expertise
Data management
Mobility
Health geography
M.A.J. (Marieke) de Sévaux
Function
PhD Candidate Public Health Department (Global Health unit)
Expertise
Infant and young child feeding (IYCF), Child Health, Global Health
J.A.K. (Jonne) Thomassen
Function
PhD researcher
Expertise
Demography; family demography; internal migration; immobility; staying behaviour; intergenerational relationships
A. (Abigail) Tun Mendicuti, MSc
Function
PhD Student
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