Bella Struminskaya

Dr Bella Struminskaya is an Associate Professor at the Department of Methodology & Statistics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, where she coordinates the Research Master Methodology and Statistics for Behavioural, Biomedical, and Social Sciences (MSBBSS).

In her research supported by the Dutch Research Council NWO Vidi grant, she is studying privacy concerns in app-based data collection and ways to provide insights to research participants to decrease biases without jeopardizing measurement quality and applying these results in practice developing a smartphone app for social science data collection. In another project funded by NWO, she is researching the use of LLMs for survey research.

Bella holds an MBA in Management of Research Infrastructures from the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is a member of the Methods Board of the European Social Survey, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Statistics Sweden, management board member and Dutch country team lead for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE ERIC), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Statistics Sweden, and a member of the Robert Koch Institute's Panel “Health in Germany” and a board member of the German Society for Online Research, serving as programme chair of the General Online Research Conference (GOR).

Bella an associate editor of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Survey Research Methods and has guest edited special issues of Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Science Computer Review, and the Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A.

Recent publications:

Schwerdtfeger, M., Weiß, B., Struminskaya, B. (2026, forthcoming). Width is the limit – Response behavior and data quality in a mobile-first survey. International Journal of Market Research.

De Leon, E., Boeschoten, L., Votta, F., Mulder, J., Struminskaya, B., Oberski, D., Araujo, T., De Vreese, C. (forthcoming). How Much Data Should I Request? Balancing Richness and Compliance in Digital Trace Data Donations. Social Science Computer Review. DOI : 10.1177/08944393261435088.

Salvatore, C., Lugtig, P., Struminskaya, B. (2026, forthcoming). Youth Nonresponse in Panel Surveys: Investigating the Impact of Life Events. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.

Corten R, Boeschoten L, Carrière T, Jongerius S, Struminskaya B, Mulder J, Zahedi P, Nadi Najafabadi S, Mendrik A. (2026). Assessing mobile instant messenger networks with donated data. Social Networks Analysis and Mining. 16(1):23. doi: 10.1007/s13278-025-01550-8.

De Leon, E., Votta, F., Jongerius, S., Mulder, J., Struminskaya, B., Araujo, T., De Vreese, C. (2025). Can Tailored Recruitment Messaging Increase Digital Trace Data Donation Compliance? International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

Kraemer, F., Lugtig, P., Struminskaya, B., Silber, H., Weiss, B., Bosnjak, M. (2025). Monitoring Attitudes Over Time - Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing? Sociological Methods and Research.

Keusch, F., Struminskaya, B., Jongerius, S., Mulder, J. (2025). Measuring Physical Activity in Older Adults through Data Donation: Consent Rates, Donation Success, & Bias. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27 doi: 10.2196/69799.

Groot Krommelink, T., Houwing, F., Struminskaya, B., Boeschoten, L., De Schipper, N., Welbers, K. (2025). Meaningful informed consent? How participants experience and understand data donation. Information, Communication & Society.

Remmerswaal, D., Lugtig, P., Schouten, B, Struminskaya, B. (2025). The effects of study duration on nonresponse and measurement quality in a smartphone app-based travel diary. Survey Research Methods, 19(4), 389–407.

Carrière, T., Boeschoten, L. , Struminskaya, B. , Janssen, H. , de Schipper, N. , Araujo, T. (2025). Best practices for studies using digital data donation. Quality & Quantity 59, 389-412.

Rodenburg, E., Schouten, B., & Struminskaya, B. (2025). Nonresponse and Dropout in an App-Based Household Budget Survey: Representativeness, Interventions to Increase Response, and Data Quality. Survey Research Methods Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 25-41.

Hase, V. , Ausloos, J., Boeschoten, L., Pfiffner, N., Janssen, H., Araujo, T., Carrière, T., de Vreese, C., Haßler, J., Loecherbach, F., Kmetty, Z., Möller, J., Ohme, J., Schmidbauer, E., Struminskaya, B., Trilling, D., Welbers, K., & Haim, M. (2024). Fulfilling data access obligations: How could (and should) platforms facilitate data donation studies? Internet Policy Review, 13(3).

Salvatore, C., Biffignandi, S., Sakshaug, J. W., Wiśniowski, A., & Struminskaya, B. (2024). Bayesian Integration of Probability and Nonprobability Samples for Logistic Regression. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 12(2), 458–492.

Boeschoten, L., De Schipper, N., Mendrik, A., Van der Veen, E., Struminskaya, B., Janssen, H., Araujo, T. (2023). Port: A software tool for digital data donation. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(90), 5596.

Rettig, T., Struminskaya, B. (2023). Memory Effects in Online Panel Surveys: Investigating Respondents’ Ability to Recall Responses from a Previous Panel Wave. Survey Research Methods, 17(3), 301.