Scientific Presentations

LabTalks­@DCD

Department of Digital and Computational Demography
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany, June 24, 2026

11:00 AM: Talk with Ugofilippo Basellini - Initial conditions matter: revisiting health transitions in low-mortality countries

About

Ugofilippo Basellini is a research scientist in the Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. His research focuses on statistical demography, particularly mortality modelling and forecasting, lifespan inequality and formal demographic methods for the study of mortality. His research has been published in leading journals, and he is a strong advocate for open science. In 2025, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to establish his own research group for the project The Future of Longevity.