Postdoctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center gaia.ghirardi@wzb.eu Google ScholarGitHubLinkedInBluesky
I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the Einstein Center Population Diversity (ECPD). I will be Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford from September 2027. I received my PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) in 2025.
My research aims to understand the intergenerational transmission of education and health outcomes from parents to children, also using molecular genetic data. My works have been published in Demography, Social Science & Medicine, European Sociological Review, Social Science Research, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and Acta Sociologica.
Research fields
- Social stratification
- Educational and health inequalities
- Sociogenomics
- Early childhood
