Director; Head of the Laboratories of Migration and Mobility and Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being

Emilio Zagheni

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Emilio Zagheni is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and affiliate faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he served as Training Director of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. He received his Ph.D. in Demography (2010) and M.A. in Statistics (2008) from U.C. Berkeley. Zagheni is currently President of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS). Previously he chaired the Digital Demography Panel of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (2015-2022), playing a key role in favoring innovation in population research through collaboration and exchange between demographers, statisticians and computational scientists. 

At MPIDR, he is head of the Department of Digital and Computational Demography, which advances fundamental population science through digital and computational perspectives. The department includes two main research units: (i) the Lab of Migration and Mobility focuses on measuring, understanding, and predicting the causes and consequences of migration and integration; (ii) the Lab of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being concentrates on quantifying, understanding, and anticipating the sustainability of individual life trajectories and population dynamics, leveraging multidimensional demographic modeling that accounts for health and survival, family change and inter-generational transfers, access to and use of digital technologies, and environmental change.

MPIDR Publications

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Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.; Williams, N. E.:
Science Advances 10:30, 1–12. (2024)       
Zhao, X.; Akbaritabar, A.; Kashyap, R.; Zagheni, E.:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:10, e2214664120–e2214664120. (2023)       
Şanlitürk, A. E.; Zagheni, E.; Dańko, M. J.; Theile, T.; Akbaritabar, A.:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:4, e2217937120–e2217937120. (2023)       
Snyder, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Zagheni, E.:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:26, e2202686119–e2202686119. (2022)       
Rampazzo, F.; Bijak, J.; Vitali, A.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:
Demography 85:6, 2193–2218. (2021)       

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