Evelina Akimova
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Contact Information Email: eakimova@purdue.edu Office: BRNG 1164 Map Homepage: Homepage |
Assistant Professor of Sociology Google Scholar Listing  View Vita
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Education
PhD University of Oxford Sociology 2021
Research Interests
Social demography & genomics, social stratification, family demography, fertility, life course, sleep & mental health, causal inference
Teaching Interests
Genes & Society, Genomics Methods for Social Scientists, Methods, Causal Inference, Demography
Grants
2025 - CLA Summer Completion Incentive Award Competition
2022 - ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Grant
2022 - European Commission, Horizon Europe Framework Programme
2021 - Oxford Summer School in Computational Social Science
Selected Publications
Dederichs, K., Akimova, E., & de Graaf, N. D. (2025). Who Remains Single? Educational Gradients in Long?Term Singlehood Across Ethnic Groups. Journal of Marriage and Family.
Ding, X., Akimova, E. T., Zhao, B., & Mills, M. C. (2025). Night Shift Work and Sleep Duration among Middle and Older Age Adults: The Role of Individual, Social, and Environmental Moderators. Social Science & Medicine, 118443.
Akimova, E. T., Wolfram, T., Ding, X., Tropf, F. C., & Mills, M. C. (2025). Polygenic prediction of occupational status GWAS elucidates genetic and environmental interplay in intergenerational transmission, careers and health in UK Biobank. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(2), 391-405.