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December 09, 2025 | New Faces at MPIDR
The Laboratory of Fertility and Wellbeing welcomes Aijie Zhang as a PhD student. Her doctoral research will focus on fertility dynamics and patterns in high-income countries. She joins us after completing her Master's degree in Economics at the University of Bonn. Beyond this primary focus, her academic interests also include institutions, gender, inequality and criminology. more
December 08, 2025 | Workshop
In mid-November, numerous scientists from around the world gathered at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock to discuss the topic of “Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics” at a workshop initiated by Risto Conte Keivabu, Ebru Sanlitürk, Daniela Perrotta, Emilio Zagheni and Raya Muttarak (University of Bologna) and the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Dynamics under Global Conflict and Climate Change. more
December 05, 2025 | New Faces at MPIDR
The Research Group Labor Demography welcomes Jan Einhoff as a new research scientist. He will also be part of the MaxHel Center. Jan completed his PhD studies in sociology within the DYNAMICS research training group at Humboldt University in Berlin and was a visiting researcher at Nuffield College in Oxford, the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and the Finnish Centre for Pensions in Helsinki. He holds degrees from Bocconi University, the Hertie School, and the University of Mannheim. more
December 03, 2025 | New Faces at MPIDR
The Kinship Inequalities Research Group welcomes Elena Pojman as a new member. Prior to joining MPIDR, Elena was a dual-title Ph.D. candidate in sociology and demography at Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on social stratification and how it affects how people spend their time and money. For her dissertation, she used mathematical demographic methods to study how race, ethnicity, educational attainment, and gender influence partnerships and caregiving. more
November 27, 2025 | Congratulations
Philipp Dierker, from the Department of Social Demography, successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Partnership Dynamics and Changes in Health and Well-Being: A Bidirectional Relationship,” at the University of Helsinki. His findings are relevant to family sociology, public health, and social policy because they identify groups at particular risk during partnership transitions. more
November 19, 2025 | New Position
scientists. They provide postdoctoral researchers with first-rate support to help them advance in their scientific careers. The selection procedure for Group Leader positions is rigorous. Susie Lee, research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), is one of the successful applicants. She will lead a research group to study reproductive ageing. more
November 14, 2025 | New Faces at MPIDR
Aysha Basheer joins the team of the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Aysha comes to MPIDR from the University of Manchester, where she is working toward her PhD in Social Statistics. Her thesis focuses on data-driven approaches to estimate and forecast human migration, specifically using Bayesian methods to understand patterns and determinants of migration flows.
She holds a bachelor's and master’s degree in mathematics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune. Following her studies, she worked as a research fellow at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. more
November 11, 2025 | Overview
Here is an overview of the latest reading recommendations for papers published by scientists at the MPIDR. more
November 05, 2025 | Research Funding
Mikko Myrskylä, the director of the MPIDR and professor at the University of Helsinki, and his colleagues, Wolfgang Lutz, the founding director of the Wittgenstein Center for Demography, Mirkka Danielsbacka, professor at the University of Turku, and Anna Rotkirch, research professor at Family Federation of Finland, will receive six million euros over the next six years to do research on population projections for migration scenarios, human capital development, and sustainable integration (MigScene). more
October 29, 2025 | Marriage or Separation
Scientists have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: the age of the individuals and the duration of the cohabitation. more