Melinda Mills is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Professor of Demography and Population Health, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford University. Her main research areas are combining a social science and genetic approach to the study of behavioural outcomes, with a focus on reproduction (fertility), chronotype, nonstandard, precarious employment and assortative mating
Felix Tropf is a sociologist holding the positions of Associate Professor in Population Data Science at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London, and in Sociology at Purdue University. His research focuses on topics in social demography, quantitative genetics, and data science. His contributions in the field were recognized with the European Demography Award for the best PhD Thesis.