Groundbreaking sociogenomics researcher Melinda Mills of Oxford University is a global authority on how genes and social environments combine to influence demographics.

As director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford,Mills is recognized for her work examining shifts in global ageing, longevity and disparities in population growth and decline worldwide. She also studies significant flows of migrants and refugees, and population-related environmental threats.

She is an authority on how genes and social environments combine to influence reproductive choices and outcomes and has developed models to predict and improve public health behaviors, including how COVID-19 certificates affected vaccination rates and the role of misinformation in vaccine hesitancy.