Jornt Mandemakers is senior researcher and scientific coordinator of Achtergrondstudies Bevolking 2050. His research interests include housing and the attractiveness of neighbourhoods (liveability), integrating genetics in the study of the life course, and health inequalities across the life course.
Jornt was educated as a sociologist at Utrecht University (MSc) and demographer at the European Doctoral School of Demography. He earned his PhD (2007) at Tilburg University, entitled “Socio-economic differentials in the impact of life course transitions on well-being”, supervised by Professor Matthijs Kalmijn and Christiaan Monden. He worked at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen as a postdoctoral researcher and as assistant professor at Wageningen University, and Utrecht University. Before joining NIDI he worked as senior researcher/project leader at Atlas Research (Amsterdam).
Affiliations
Treasurer of the Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD – Nederlandse Vereniging voor Demografie)
Expertise
Demography, family and life course sociology, attractiveness of neighbourhoods (liveability)
