Alex Kortink Boada

Alex Kortink Boada serves as a Junior Researcher at the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) hosted by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), an entity of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) with formal affiliation to the University of Groningen. Previously, he supported NIDI's facilities team and the AB2050 project as a student assistant.

His academic credentials include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Twente
• Research Master in Migration, Ethnic Relations, and Multiculturalism from Utrecht University, where his thesis investigated emotional determinants of populist radical right support through national identity frameworks

Boada's research integrates demography, migration studies, and political behavior to examine how societal preferences evolve. He specializes in emotional underpinnings of political attitudes and demographic impacts on policy domains like housing, employing comparative longitudinal methodologies to track societal transformations across generational cohorts.

His seminal 2025 Demos publication documents a dramatic reversal in Dutch housing sentiment: from 48% positive satisfaction during anticipated population decline (2009) to 11% positivity amid actual growth (2023), revealing critical urban-rural divides and generational disparities in market perceptions.

While no student supervision or specific grant details are documented, his work operates within NIDI's institutional infrastructure and University of Groningen's academic framework.

As a core contributor to the Generations and Gender Programme, Boada engages with this international initiative collecting longitudinal data on family formation, gender dynamics, and intergenerational transmission of human capital.