I founded and am currently heading an interuniversity research group in beautiful Paris, which aims to utilize genetic data for social science research. Please find here information about our program that is externally accessible and about our group members. Please contact me for more information.
Speakers
Dr. Kretschmer is an interdisciplinary researcher and ERC fellow on the topic: "Ghosts from the past: Consequences of Adolescent Peer Experiences across social contexts and generations". We are more than happy to hear her speaking on Integrating genetical information in research on adolescent development"
Members
Patrick Präg is an assistant professor of quantitative sociology at
CREST/ENSAE since September 2020.
He's interested in social stratification, social
demography, and health and wellbeing.
Previously at SSGP
We are thrilled that on February 26, Pietro Biroli from Zurich University will speak on Genes, Pubs, and Drinks: Gene-environment interplay and alcohol licensing policy in the United Kingdom. This is joint work with Christian Zünd.
Ben Domingue is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, a publication machine and one of my personal supersstars in Social Science Genetics. Thanks a lot for your talk about Sociogenomics: Some recent history and a novel approach for examining GxE interaction.
Jasmin Wertz is a developmental psychologist with expertise in developmental psychopathology, behavior genetics, and life-course epidemiology. Her talk on "Parental investment across a child's life: Genetic analysis in multiple cohorts" was very impressive!
Perline Demange is truly the rising star in Social Science Genetics. Her work is both substantially as well as methodologically of major relevance and published with deserved attention! Watch out, she does her PhD in Amsterdam and might be on the job market one day soon!
Laura Silva is a PhD student at the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC) at Sciences Po. Her research interests focus on urban inequalities, neighbourhood effects and the role of genetics.
Tobias is a genius. He is my first PhD student, formerly studying Sociology and Statistics in Berlin. I learn everyday from him, a lot about Machine Learning and AI, as well as history and life.
Zachary Van Winkle is an assistant professor of sociology at Sciences Po's Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC).
We are so happy to have Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne join our group at least for a while! He is visiting Paris, working for The Paris Brain Institute with Olivier Colliot and the famous Naomi Wray and Peter Visscher back in Australia. His insights are a fortune to the group!