Emmanuelle KUIJT

Emma holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Anthropology and a Master's degree in Demography from UCLouvain, where her research integrated demographic dynamics into climate impact modeling. To deepen her expertise in formal demography, she then attended the European Doctoral School for Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). 

She is currently pursuing a joint PhD under the supervision of Prof. Wim Thiery and Prof. Bruno Masquelier (Center for Demographic Research - UCLouvain). Her project, "Degrees of inequality: How educational attainment shapes mortality and bereavement in a warming world" (TEMPINK - Temperature Inequalities & Kin), explores how rising temperatures don't just increase direct health risks—they also reshape intergenerational ties through the loss of parents, grandparents, and spouses.

Her research combines statistical mortality modeling with kinship demographic methods to understand how educational background shapes vulnerability to climate-related deaths and how temperature-driven mortality affects the availability of kin across generations. Through case studies in Belgium, Bangladesh, and Senegal, alongside global projections, the project aims to reveal the long-term social consequences of a warming world.

This research is funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).