​Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Texas at Austin
zhiyong.lin@austin.utexas.edu

Welcome!

I am a medical sociologist, family demographer, and social gerontologist studying health inequalities and family dynamics over the life course. Currently I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Research Center and Center on Aging and Population Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. I will be joining the University of Texas at San Antonio as the Assistant Professor of Sociology in Fall 2022.

One line of my research consists of social determinants of well-being, mostly among older adults. The other strand of my research investigates the changing patterns of intimate relationships in non-Western social contexts undergoing dramatic social transitions. 
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My work has appeared in Demography,  Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Demographic Research, Research on Aging, Chinese Sociological Review, Aging & Mental Health, and other peer-reviewed outlets (Google Scholar).