Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

New Faces at the MPIDR | November 13, 2026

Welcome, Paul Bachmann!

The Laboratory of Migration and Mobility welcomes Paul Bachmann as its new PhD student. Before joining the MPIDR Paul successfully finished his masters’ at the Free University of Berlin. During his PhD, he intends to explore how the global science system, including educational institutions, border and visa regimes, and political conditions, functions as a sorting machine for migration. He is particularly interested in how structural selection interacts with individual factors such as professional networks and personal aspirations.  More

PHD | November 03, 2026

Congratulations, Ricarda Duerst!

Ricarda Duerst from the Laboratory of Population Health at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), successfully defended her doctoral thesis, “Learning from past mistakes: Uncertainty in demographic forecasting“, at the University of Helsinki. Her findings contribute to our understanding of forecasting problems and help researchers improve probabilistic demographic forecasts.  More

November 01, 2026

New IUSSP Panel on Digital Demography, AI, and Open Science

We are happy to announce that the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) has created the Scientific Panel on Digital Demography, AI, and Open Science, which starts on November 1, 2026, and will run until November 2030. The panel is co-chaired by Aliakbar Akbaritabar from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the University of Rostock, and Francesco Rampazzo from the University of Manchester.  More