Academic Profile

Kim Stienstra is NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS). Her research interests include educational inequality, social stratification, and sociogenomics. At the LCDS, she investigates how genetics, family socioeconomic status, and adverse childhood experiences cumulatively and interactively shape children’s educational outcomes, and how supportive environments can help mitigate genetic and environmental risks.

Previously, Kim was a Max Weber Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Sociology at Utrecht University, as part of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) graduate school.