Hello and thank you for visiting! My name is Micol Matilde Morellini and I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Zurich, working on an SNF-funded project on the feminisation of international migration.

My research lies at the intersection of migration studies, social demography, and network science. I am also interested in the study of climate change from a demographic perspective. More broadly, I am interested in developing statistical methods to study social phenomena, and in the limits of what such methods can tell us. I specialise in the use of computational methods and non-traditional data sources to address long-standing questions in human migration, harnessing these tools to improve how we currently understand, model, and forecast migration. In my doctoral project, I drew from statistical network analysis, micro-simulation, and big data to investigate the drivers and patterns of international migration.

I am an affiliated member of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) at the University of Oxford. Given my training in statistics and quantitative methods, I regularly collaborate with researchers from other disciplines and have a strong interest in interdisciplinary work more generally.

Before joining the University of Zurich, I completed a DPhil (PhD) in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and was an affiliated student at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Before then, I graduated with distinction from the MPhil in Sociology and Demography at the University of Oxford, after working as a research manager at the Harvard Kennedy School, where I was responsible for implementing randomised controlled trials (RCTs) aimed at reducing educational inequalities.