People

From academics who are experts in their field to innovators in survey development and the brightest postgraduate students, the ISER staff and its Research Associates represent a unique research community that makes a major contribution to the University of Essex's standing as the leading university in the UK for social science research.

Researchers

Tarek Al Baghal

Research Fellow

Silvia Avram

Research Fellow

Yanchun Bao

Research Fellow

Nicola Barban

Reader

Selçuk Bedük

Senior Research Officer

Michaela Benzeval

Director, Understanding Society

Sonia Bhalotra

Professor of Economics

Cara Booker

Research Fellow and Deputy Graduate Director

Magda Borkowska

Senior Research Officer

Mike Brewer

Director of MiSoC

Malcolm Brynin

Graduate Director; Reader

Jonathan Burton

Associate Director, Surveys

Bastien Chabe-Ferret

Senior Research Officer

Amy Clair

Research Fellow

Paul Clarke

Professor of Social Statistics

Diego Collado

EUROMOD Research Data & Policy Analyst

Apostolos Davillas

Research Fellow

Paola De Agostini

Senior Research Officer

Emilia Del Bono

Professor of Economics and Director of Research

Adeline Delavande

Professor of Economics

Manuel Fernandez Sierra

Senior Research Officer

Paul Fisher

Research Fellow

Laura Fumagalli

Senior Research Officer

Katrin Gasior

Senior Research Officer

Emily Grundy

Director of ISER, University of Essex

Karon Gush

Senior Research Officer

Angus Holford

Research Fellow

Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

Research Fellow

Annette Jäckle

Professor of Survey Methodology, Associate Director of Innovations for Understanding Society

Olena Kaminska

Survey Statistician

Jack Kneeshaw

Executive Director, Euromod

Gundi Knies

Research Fellow

Elif Kubilay

Senior Research Officer

Meena Kumari

Professor of Biological and Social Epidemiology

Heather Laurie

Professor of Sociology

Peter Lynn

Professor of Survey Methodology

Alita Nandi

Research Fellow

Alari Paulus

Research Fellow

Alina Pelikh

Senior Research Officer (Policy Unit)

Daria Popova

Research Fellow

Stephen Pudney

Visiting Professor

Birgitta Rabe

Senior Research Fellow

Matteo Richiardi

EUROMOD Director

Bernhard Schmidpeter

Senior Research Officer

Melissa Smart

Research Fellow (Health Research Manager)

Iva Valentinova Tasseva

Senior Research Officer

Sandra Walzenbach

Senior Research Officer

Alexander Wenz

Senior Research Officer

Min Zhang

Senior Research Officer

Postgraduate students

Vilma Agalioti-Sgompou

ISER PhD Student

Alexandria Andrayas

ISER PhD Student

Liza Benny

ISER PhD Student

Kristopher Bevan

ISER PhD Student

Franco Bonomi Bezzo

ISER PhD Student

Melissa Ellery

ISER PhD Student

Paulino Font Gilabert

ISER PhD Student

Joshua Fullard

ISER PhD Student

Katrin Gasior

Senior Research Officer

Steven Haworth

ISER PhD Student

Farzaneh Hemmati Torabi

ISER PhD Student

Yuliya Kazakova

ISER PhD Student

Jennifer Kelley

ISER PhD Student

Valerija Kolbas

ISER PhD Student

Carlos Lagorio

ISER PhD Student

Chimwemwe Magalasi

ISER PhD Student

David McAleavey

ISER PhD Student

Ipek Mumcu

ISER PhD Student

Linh Nguyen

PhD student

Dietrich Pena Zuluaga

ISER PhD Student

Brendan Read

ISER PhD Student

David Rodriguez

ISER PhD Student

Enrico Rubolino

ISER PhD Student

Claudia Samano Robles

ISER PhD Student

Sonkurt Kemal Sen

ISER PhD Student

Iva Valentinova Tasseva

Senior Research Officer