BIO
Felix Tropf is a sociologist and his current interests focus on social demography, genetics and big data econometrics. He is an Assistant Professor in Social Science Genetics at CREST/ENSAE, an Associate member of Nuffield College in Oxford and a Visiting Scientist at the Queensland Institute for Medical Research (QIMR) in Australia. In 2016, he received the European Demography Award for best PhD Thesis. In 2022, he was Awarded the prestigious Horizon Europe ERC Starting Grant. Tropf’ research has been published, amongst others, in Demography, Nature Genetics, Nature Human Behaviour, JAMA Psychiatry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Population Studies. Together with Melinda Mills and Nicola Barban, he co-authored a textbook about statistical genetic data analysis published with MIT press.