Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

New Faces at the MPIDR | November 05, 2026

Welcome, Marcelo Fleury!

The Research Group: Mortality Inequalities welcomes Marcelo Fleury as a joint PhD student with Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). Prior to working at MPIDR, Marcelo worked with researchers in NIDI’s “Health, Ageing and Mortality” team on longitudinal research on health and chronic disease across European populations and has been part of the 2025-2026 European Doctoral School of Demography cohort.   More

PHD | November 03, 2026

Congratulations, Ricarda Duerst!

Ricarda Duerst from the Laboratory of Population Health at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), successfully defended her doctoral thesis, “Learning from past mistakes: Uncertainty in demographic forecasting“, at the University of Helsinki. Her findings contribute to our understanding of forecasting problems and help researchers improve probabilistic demographic forecasts.  More

November 01, 2026

New IUSSP Panel on Digital Demography, AI, and Open Science

We are happy to announce that the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) has created the Scientific Panel on Digital Demography, AI, and Open Science, which starts on November 1, 2026, and will run until November 2030. The panel is co-chaired by Aliakbar Akbaritabar from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the University of Rostock, and Francesco Rampazzo from the University of Manchester.  More