BIO
Nicola Barban is Professor of Demography at the University of Bologna, Italy, and an international co-investigator of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC), United Kingdom. He is Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant GENPOP: Genes, genealogies and the evolution of demographic change and social inequality. His research focuses on demography, sociogenomics, social interactions and life course analysis. His work has been published in high impact factor journals such as Nature Genetics, Nature Human Behaviour and American Sociological Review. He is the author, together with Melinda Mills and Felix Tropf, of the textbook An Introduction to Statistical Genetic Analysis, edited by MIT Press.