Su Yeon is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. She specializes in quantitative investigations of health inequalities in ageing societies, with expertise in studying migrant populations.

Su Yeon’s initial degree was in Nursing from Seoul National University, where she qualified as a Registered Nurse in South Korea. She then pursued her interest in population health, completing a Master’s in Global Urban Health at the University of Freiburg, followed by work as a Researcher in Preventive Medicine at Kyung Hee University School of Medicine.

As part of the International Max Planck Research School in Population, Health and Data Science – a joint program between the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam – Su Yeon pursued her Doctoral studies in Public Health under the supervision of Prof. Mikko Myrskylä, Prof. Frank van Lenthe, Prof. Anna Oksuzyan, and Dr. Silvia Loi. Her dissertation examines and compares healthy ageing trajectories between immigrants and native-born populations, focusing on long-term health as measured by the accumulation of chronic diseases.