About


Hello and thank you for visiting! My name is Micol Matilde Morellini and I'm a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the University of Oxford and an affiliated student at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MDPIR).

My research lies at the intersection of migration studies, social demography, and network science. I specialise in the use of computational methods and non-traditional data sources to address long-standing questions in human migration. I am also interested in the study of climate change from a demographic perspective. In my doctoral project, I draw from statistical network analysis, micro-simulation, and big data to investigate the drivers and patterns of international and internal migration. By harnessing novel methodologies and data sources, my work aims to improve how we currently understand, model, and forecast migration.

Alongside my doctoral work, I collaborate on research projects within the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) and the Saïd Business School, focusing on computational social science. I'm also a tutor/teaching assistant in demography and population studies at the Institute of Human Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Before starting the PhD, 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). 

Research


Offshoring emissions through used vehicle exports


Saul Justin Newman, Kayla Schulte, Micol Matilde Morellini, Charles Rahal, Douglas R. Leasure

Nature Climate Change, 2024


Revisiting migrant networks: migrants and their descendants in labour markets


Micol Matilde Morellini

Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022

Credit: Oxford Population Health / One Ltd

Teaching


Demography and Population

Tutor for second-year undergraduate students in the BA in Human Sciences. Topics covered: Demographic transitions, transition to adulthood, migration, population projections and forecasting


Sociology and Demography

Tutor for first-year undergraduate students in the BA in Human Sciences. Topics covered: Introduction to population analysis and quantitative methods in demography; comparative study of fertility, mortality and family systems; the demographic transition.

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