May 09, 2025

Review of the Rostock Open Science Workshop 2025

In March 2025, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) hosted the second Rostock Open Science Workshop in Rostock, Germany. The two-day event brought together researchers, scientists, and experts from around the world to discuss and learn about open science practices, with a focus on making research results and materials freely available to everyone. The workshop aimed to increase knowledge sharing, transparency and reproducibility of published results. More

May

Seminars

2025 Research Soft Skill Seminars

MPIDR colleagues, PhD students and guests are invited to participate in the 2025 edition of the Research Soft Skill Seminars. More

All Events

Call for Papers

Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics

New Issue 1/2025 available | April 02, 2025

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Introduction to our research groups

Migration and Health Inequalities

New Faces at MPIDR | May 08, 2025

Welcome, Antonino Polizzi!

Antonino Polizzi has been a researcher in the Laboratory of Population Health at the Department of Social Demography since February. He will defend his doctoral thesis in sociology at the University of Oxford. In Rostock, he finds the astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church particularly interesting. More

Selected Publications

Dańko, M. J.; Wiśniowski, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.; Zagheni, E.:

Assessing the quality of data on international migration flows in Europe: the case of undercounting Migration Studies 12:2, 1–21. (2024)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss Population Studies 79:1, 45–57. (2025)

More Publications

Jobs & Fellowships

Open Access

Online Available Books

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New articles every week

New Publication | March 17, 2025

How have Covid-19 vaccinations affected birth rates?

SPOTLIGHT | March 13, 2025

A Difficult Childhood Increases the Risk of Dying Early

SPOTLIGHT | March 11, 2025

Level of Education and Place of Residence Influence Fertility Rates

Award | May 07, 2025

DGD Young Scientists Award for Anna-Kathleen Piereth

The DGD Young Scientists Award is presented at the annual conference of the German Association for Demography. This year, Anna-Kathleen Piereth from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) won the award in the category "Best Master's Thesis". She received the award in March 2025 at the DGD's annual conference in Wiesbaden for her master's thesis "The Demography of Inpatient Care: Insights from the German Diagnosis Related Groups (G-DRG) Statistics". More