March 19, 2015 | News

Congratulations!

Former MPIDR-researcher Anne-Kristin Kuhnt has received a prize for young researchers. The prize was awarded at this year’s Annual Meeting of the German Society for Demography (DGD), which took place from 13 - 18 March in Berlin.

Anne-Kristin Kuhnt conducted research at the MPIDR from 2009 to 2014 and was attached to the research group Life Course, Social Policy, and the Family. At the MPIDR, she also worked towards her PhD, for which she has now been granted the award. Her dissertation analyzed the desire of men and women to have children. Anne-Kristin Kuhnt wanted to find out the extent to which that desire remains stable over the life course and what factors hinder people to accomplish childbearing.

The prize, called the Allianz Demography Award for young researchers, honors outstanding work on demographic issues. The 6,000 euros prize is issued jointly by the insurance group Allianz and the German Society for Demography. The purpose is to support young academics from various fields having completed a PhD or Master dissertation two years before the award is being issued. The dissertation must have been written in English or German.

The DGD is Germany’s society of scientists interested in demographic issues. It is a politically independent association consisting of scientists as well as people and institutions with an interest in science working in the field of demography or neighboring disciplines.