Hybrid Format

Talk@MPIDR Samir K.C.

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany, November 05, 2024

1:00 PM: Samir K.C. - Heterogeneity in Population Projection: Local to Global perspective

Hybrid Format
Room 400 and Zoom

About

Initiator of the PSR HUB (Nepal), Samir KC is a senior research scholar at IIASA and led the Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Research Group in the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program from 2021 to 2023. KC is a founding member of and Professor at the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University. KC is leading ADRI's research pillar on Human Capital and Development. He is also a founding member of  "Digital Data Systems for Development" in Nepal. Between 2020-2023, KC was affiliated with the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, as a 'Distinguished Visiting Professor.

KC's primary research interests are developing and applying multi-dimensional multi-state population models in demographic analysis and projections, focusing on modeling human capital formation (education and health) and urbanization. He has co-developed an R package (MSDem) that can simultaneously model multi-dimensional population dynamics at sub-national levels by age, sex, and educational attainment. KC has published in Science magazine (2011, 2014) and other peer-reviewed journals (e.g., GEC in 2014, PNAS in 2016 and 2018), and has co-edited and written several chapters in the book "World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century," published by Oxford University Press in 2014. KC's master's degree in statistics is from Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1997). Subsequently, he taught university statistics in Kathmandu and worked as a biostatistician at the Nepal Health Research Council. KC received his PhD. (specialized in demography and health) from the Department of Spatial Science at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2009).