July 29, 2005 | Press Release

MPIDR scientist receives an important international award

Vladimir Shkolnikov, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, received the "Award for Comparative Research in Demography" at the 25th meeting of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population on July 23, 2005 in Tours, France. The award is conferred jointly by the IUSSP and the Fondation Mattei Dogan every four years to honor distinguished scientists who have made a major contribution from an interdisciplinary and international perspective to the further development of the discipline of demography. The president of the IUSSP, Jacques Vallin, acknowledged in his laudatory address Shkolnikov's outstanding achievements in the area of morality research.

In his research Vladimir Shkolnikov studies the causes of human mortality. In addition to publications dealing purely with population science, he has produced a series of studies that combine demography with the areas of public health, epidemiology, medicine and criminology. In his lecture presented at the award ceremony, which was titled "Towards the understanding of mortality divergences and reversals", Shkolnikov examined the development of human life expectancy. As examples, he discussed the significant drop in the life expectancy of the male Russian population, due particularly to the increase in cardiovascular diseases, alcohol abuse and violence, as well as the effects of AIDS epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.

Vladimir Shkolnikov was born in 1957 in Tbilisi/Georgia. He received his doctorate in population geography at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1987. He has been head of the data laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock since 2000.

 

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