Projects:
Regional heterogeneity in genetic effects: What explains the missing heritability puzzle?
Participating researchers:
Nadia Harerimana
ESSGN Doctoral Candidate
Nadia Harerimana is a Ph.D. researcher in Sociology at Bielefeld University. She is interested in the interplay between nature, nurture, and inter- and intragenerational social mobility. Prior to this, Nadia worked as a Bioinformatician in the Genetics and Genomic Sciences department at The Icahn School of Medicine. She holds a Msc. in Genetics from Emory University and a B.A. in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic.
Yixuan Liu
Affiliated Doctoral Candidate
Email: yixuan.liu@uni-bielefeld.de
Website: https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp?personId=394353240
Yixuan Liu is a doctoral researcher in Sociology at Bielefeld University, specializing in the field of health inequality. Her research focuses on how genetic variation, gene expression, and educational experiences collectively influence health from childhood to young adulthood. Since March 2023, Yixuan has been involved with the TwinLife project and the TwinLife Epigenetic Change Satellite (TECS) project.
Martin Diewald
Professor of Sociology
email: martin.diewald@uni-bielefeld.de
Website: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/soziologie/fakultaet/personen/diewald/index.xml
Martin Diewald is a sociologist at Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology. His research interests are about social inequalities, family and social networks, health, and the life course. He has often worked at the intersection of sociology with psychology and economics. In addition to his university affiliation he is since 2006 visiting professor at the DIW in Berlin and got for one year the Chaire Alfred Grosser at Sciences Po. Among his major research grants is a Collaborative Research Centre “From Heterogeneities to Inequalities” funded by the DFG (SFB 882) and the 12 year long-term project “Genetic and Social Causes of Life Chances. A Genetically Informative, Longitudinal Study of the Life Course and Individual Development” with several satellite projects on molecular genetic (TwinSNPs) and epigenetic (TECS, Immunotwin) extensions of this nuclear twin family study as well as contextual information in the form of the quality of daycare facilities (K2ID twins) and geocoded data (TwinLife Environment).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 programme under grant agreement number 101073237
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