Francesco Rampazzo

Francesco Rampazzo is a Lecturer in Demography at the University of Southampton, actively contributing to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. He maintains affiliations as a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College and collaborates with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock and the Centre for Population Change in Southampton.

• Education:
  • PhD in Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton
  • European Doctoral School of Demography diploma
  • Master in Demography, Stockholm University
  • Bachelor in Statistical Science, University of Padova

His research focuses onDigital and Computational Demography, leveraging digital traces from advertising platforms like Facebook to study demographic phenomena, particularly fertility and migration patterns. He pioneers methods for real-time migration tracking, crisis response analysis, and innovative survey methodologies.

The 2025 article on Global South survey sampling demonstrates his commitment to non-traditional data sources, while his 2024 publications explore Brexit migration impacts, menstrual app fertility data, and cross-European adulthood transitions. His work consistently bridges digital analytics with classical demographic frameworks.

Francesco's methodological innovations include validating Facebook's advertising data for social science research (2022), developing migration estimation frameworks combining digital and survey data (2021), and investigating pandemic behavioral impacts through social media surveys (2021). His earlier work (2018) tackled male fertility estimation challenges using digital data.