Melinda Mills holds a part-time position as Professor of Data Science and Public Health Policy, Department of Econometrics, Economics and Finance, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
11 Facts About Melinda Mills
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Melinda Mills was born in Red Deer, Alberta Canada and attended River Glen Elementary and Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School.
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Melinda Mills studied sociology and demography at the University of Alberta, where she obtained an undergraduate BA and an MA.
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Melinda Mills received her PhD in demography from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
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Melinda Mills worked at the University of Groningen and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Bielefeld Universitat in Germany.
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Melinda Mills was the first female Professor and first female Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford from 2015 to 2018.
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Melinda Mills has written extensively in several areas, including fertility and low fertility, with a focus on socioeconomic and structural factors, policy incentives and childlessness.
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Melinda Mills has held multiple prestigious grants including an ERC Consolidator Grant and an ERC Advanced Grant.
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Melinda Mills's work has examined biological and genetic factors related to timing and number of children, with her team leading the first Genome-Wide Association Study of age of first birth and number of children ever born.
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Outside of her scientific work, Melinda Mills has held various non-Executive and advisory roles across multiple organizations.
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Melinda Mills was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours and in the same year elected as Fellow of the British Academy.