Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)

Who you know or where you work: what shapes researchers’ career moves? A new study uses Scopus publication data to explore academic mobility and professional networks. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/recommended_reading_14980

WelcomeWeek@MPIDR: Hello Johanna! Johanna Kranz joins the team of the Research Coordination. She will work as a foreign language secretary. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

📣Phd Studentship‼️𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴 – 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝟰-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Application Deadline: December 1, 2026 https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/university_of_hong_kong_max_planck_phd_studentship_in_population_studies_15787

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR: Hello Becky Arnold! Becky will be working with Emilio Zagheni on the Horizon Europe project LIFe. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_becky_arnold_15783 #welcome #demography #data

📣Job Offer: 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰/𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 📅Apply until Nov 17, 2026 🌐https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_kinship_inequalities_research_group_15802 Diego Alburez | #Postdoc #Joboffer #Kinship

📣Call for Research Contributions‼️ 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 📍Symposium at Villa Vigoni in Loveno di Menaggio | Italy 📅March 08–10, 2027 🚩Application deadline: 15 Nov 2026 🔔Notification: by 15 Dec 2026 🌐www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RFR 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿𝘀: @nhiekel.bsky.social | @agnese-vitali.bsky.social

The Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network (MP-AIX) empowers doctoral researchers by linking them with advisors across the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft to develop and apply AI methods in every scientific discipline. MPIDR advisors are: Susie Lee Marcus Ebeling Emilio Zagheni 👉🏼 https://ai.mpg.de/en

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR: We welcome Jason Paul Bonham as a new team member. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_jason_bonham_15725

📣Call for Papers to Special Collection at Demographic Research‼️ 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆: 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 🗓️Deadline: 15 December 2026 https://www.demographic-research.org/files/20260526_cfp_Kinship_Demography.pdf Diego Alburez Elena Pojman

🆕📰Parenthood with Multiple Partners: A new study by Stefano Arnolfo, Nicole Hiekel & Aart Liefbroer reveals that gender & social background shape family complexity through distinct life-course pathways. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/MP-parenthood

Incredibly proud of Ricarda Duerst @mpidr.bsky.social who defended her thesis on "Learning from past mistakes". Ricarda started with the idea that a prediction is only as good as similar predictions in the past turned out to be and applied it to demographic forecasts. hdl.handle.net/10138/637205

Ariel Karlinsky delivered a stunning talk @mpidr.bsky.social where he demonstrated that without institutional constraints and in election years, governments tended to underreport their COVID deaths. Lively discussion followed. The paper is well worth a read. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝘂𝘀 𝗘𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱 Die neue Ausgabe von Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand, dem demografischen Newsletter mit verständlich aufgearbeiteten Ergebnissen der aktuellen Forschung, ist erschienen. https://www.demografische-forschung.org/artikel/2026/3

👏Alyson van Raalte 🎉has been appointed as Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Population Studies Group, LSHTM https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/honorary_professorship_for_alyson_van_raalte_15761

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR: Hello Kirsten Emmert!👋 The team of the International IMPRS-PHDS is happy to welcome Kirsten Emmert as the new IMPRS-PHDS Coordinator. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/pages/news?id=15724&l=en

🎂Happy Birthday to us!🍾 MPIDR is turning 30 on this very day. 🎉 Thanks to everyone who has supported us along the way, helps moving demography forward and, overall makes MPIDR such a fantastic place! www.demogr.mpg.de/go/30yMPIDR | English www.demogr.mpg.de/go/30jMPIDR | Deutsch

How much do our birth circumstances shape where we end up? New #HorizonEurope project LIFe will trace how advantages & disadvantages build up across whole lives & generations. MPIDR’s Department of Digital & #ComputationalDemography leads demographic and health modelling. #IntergenerationalFairness

What happens to researcher mobility in war & armed conflict? A new study traces scholars in #Ukraine from 2009–2022: conflict-affected regions lost researchers within Ukraine & abroad. The findings challenge the idea that #ScholarlyMmobility is simply a matter of free choice. #ResearchersAtRisk

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR: Hello Dr. Miriam Franchina! Based in Berlin, Miriam will support the PR department in the area of science communication and also work for Population Europe. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_miriam_franchina_15680

When an adult child is out of work, the effects can ripple across generations. A new study of 73k+ adults in #India finds a higher risk of depression among parents of unemployed adult children, especially in more unequal states. An active social life may help. 🔗www.demogr.mpg.de/go/worried-parents

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR! We are welcoming quite a few new people into our MPIDR team. Today we welcome Martina Matthies! She joins our administration as Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerk. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_martina_matthies_15675

🎉PHD🎓 Congratulations, Adarsh! Adarsh successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Drugs, Deaths and Cohorts “, at the University of St Andrews. IMPRS-PHDS https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/congratulations_adarsh_15674 #Phd #Demography #Mortality

👓Recommended Reading: Comparison of Microsimulated and Register-based Kinship Data In their recent paper, Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal et al. examine the agreement between microsimulated and register-based kin counts. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RRead Diego Alburez | Martin Kolk | Emilio Zagheni

🚨Job Offer🚨Postdoctoral Researcher: Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography 📅Application Deadline: October 13, 2026 https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoctoral_researcher_max_planck_research_group_on_medical_demography_15651

🛫🛄MPIDR on Tour: We are happy to join the Annual Conference of the British Society for Population Studies at the University of Kent from today until Thursday. Our colleagues are looking forward to presenting and discussing their research. Jose Andrade Ana Cris GUV Elena Pojman #BSPS2026

👏 Alyson van Raalte and Kieron Barclay appointed new Editors-in-Chief of Population Studies https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/alyson_van_raalte_and_kieron_barclay_appointed_new_editors_in_chief_of_population_studies_15659

IDEM 187 | 💻Online Classes 👉Topics in Digital and Computational Demography 📅November 02–06, 2026 💸No tuition fee ✍️Deadline: 25 September 2026. Ebru Sanliturk | Emilio Zagheni | @theiletom.bsky.social | Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal | Jordan D. Klein www.demogr.mpg.de/go/DCD26

Maxi Kniffka vom Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung in Rostock spricht im neuen „Ach, Mensch“- Podcast darüber, wie sich Klinikschließungen, Fachkräftemangel und die #Krankenhausreform auf die #Geburtshilfe in Deutschland auswirken. www.mpg.de/26957470/max... @mpidr.bsky.social

Do environmental concerns lead people to delay or avoid parenthood? Decades of German data suggest they did not. Whether younger generations will follow the same pattern remains an open question. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/worries-a... #Fertility #ClimateChange #Demography

It is this time of year again! A new #EDSD cohort (the 22nd) is beginning their journey with us before they move on to the @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social at the end of October. We wish everyone an enjoyable and productive year of study, research and networking! eaps.nl/page/europea...

Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 2-6, 2026. Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/DCD26 Application deadline is September 25, 2026.

It's a wrap! #ALAP2026 is over. We had a good time, good talks and a great experience! MPIDR says ¡Muchas gracias por una conferencia increíble! Jose Andrade | Thiago Malaguth | Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal | Abi Tun | Ana Cris GUV | Ebru Sanliturk | Diego Alburez | Katherine Del Salto Calderon

MPIDR@ALAP2026 Last day of the conference. Last MPIDR presentation. Don't miss! Friday 29 August | 🕑 8:30 am📍 Educon A309 🗣️ Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal | Measuring the Overlap with Ancestors Throughout the Life Course of the Swedish Cohorts 1751—2000 #ALAP2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ALAP2026

MPIDR@ALAP2026 #ALAP2026 and we are still here! Come and see us today: 🗣️ Abi Tun | Carolina Coimbra Vieira | Thiago Malaguth | www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ALAP2026

MPIDR@ALAP2026: Hello San José, we are still at #ALAP2026. Meet MPIDR at four presentations today: 🗣️ Jose Andrade | Katherine Del Salto Calderon | Thiago Malaguth | Maria Laura Miranda | www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ALAP2026

MPIDR@ALAP2026 Good Morning #ALAP2026, today we proceed with th pre-conference schools. Grab a coffee and get ready! Ebru Sanliturk | Thiago Malaguth | Diego Alburez | Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ALAP2026

MPIDR@ALAP2026: We are excited to be attending #ALAP2026 in San José, Costa Rica. Diego Alburez | Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal | Enrique Acosta | Ebru Sanliturk | Carolina Coimbra Vieira | Thiago Malaguth | Camila Montiel | Martín Koolhaas | Victoria Prieto www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ALAP2026

🛫MPIDR on Tour🧳 @josecas91.bsky.social followed an invitation from the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Ecuador (INEC) in Quito. This week, he is presenting a training course titled “Mortality Forecasting: Methods and Applications” for INEC researchers and technical staff.

🎓Congrats! @athinaanas.bsky.social successfully defended her thesis “The Second Migrant: The role of gender in demographic theories, methods, and data for migration research“ @rug.nl "cum laude" - a rare distinction in the NL (roughly 5%) @imprs-phds.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

🆕Publication Fewer Heart Attacks, More Cancer Cases, Better Survival Chances Medical progress is currently one of the strongest forces shaping populations & their health. Researchers examined how disease prevention has affected various diseases in Sweden. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/advancesprevention

My second PhD paper is out! 🎉 'Assessing the Agreement Between Microsimulated and Register-Based Kin Counts in Sweden',with @demography.bsky.social , @martinkolk.bsky.social & @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @suda-sthlm.bsky.social 🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324728.2026.2706778

Individual-Level Mortality Predictions: Statistical Models vs. Machine Learning Study examined whether ML could improve individual-level lifespan predictions. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ML-SM-LS Monica Alexander | Ugofilippo Basellini | Emilio Zagheni | Demography - the flagship journal of PAA