Does genetic influence on education changes across neighbourhoods?
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Portineria del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale
Via Verdi, 26 I - 38122 Trento
tel. +39 0461 281300
portineria.sociologia [at] unitn.it
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Department of Sociology and Social Research, via Verdi, 26 - Trento, Meeting Room – Third Floor
Brown bag seminars - Organized by the Center for Social Inequality Studies (CSIS) research unit
Speaker:
- Nicola Barban
Nicola Barban is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow at Nuffield College. He earned his PhD in Statistical Sciences from the University of Padua, Italy. Before moving to Oxford, he worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His main interest is to combine genomics and social sciences. Currently, he is working on Sociogenome, a project on gene-environment interactions in fertility behaviour funded by the European Research Council (PI, Melinda Mills) and he is coordinating a large meta-GWAS on fertility traits.