May 06, 2014 | News | Poster Prize

Congratulations!

MPIDR researchers Marcus Ebeling and Roland Rau have been awarded a prize for their poster entitled "Mortality Development and the Rectangularization of the Survival Curve"  at this year Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA).

Rectangularization — the development of an increasingly rectangular shape of the survival curve — has been theoretically predicted and empirically shown among humans in nearly all low mortality countries in the last decade. Due to the differing pace of improvement of mortality and the maximum life-span, rectangularization need to be approached from a different perspective. Explanations that account for this relation, however, remain limited. The MPIDR researcher presented on their poster a new approach which enables an investigation of the dependency of both issues.

Marcus Ebeling is working on his thesis in the MPIDR research group “Modeling the Evolution of Aging” and at the University of Rostock. Roland Rau is researcher in the MPIDR Laboratory of Survival and Longevity and is professor for demography at the University of Rostock.