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May 11, 2021 | Call for Participation
The Rostock Retreat is an experimental format for a scholarly exchange designed to encourage communication and collaboration on specific themes in a relaxed atmosphere. The Rostock Retreat 2021 will focus on visualizing uncertainty and will take place online. more
May 10, 2021 | Welcome to the MPIDR
Coming from Stockholm University where he obtained his Master in Demography, Henrik-Alexander Schubert is a new PhD-Student at the Fertility and Well-being Laboratory. He wants to find out how the fertility of men deviates from female fertility. On weekends you are most likely to meet him in one of Rostock's skateparks. more
May 04, 2021 | Congratulations
Luis Serratos-Sotelo from the Research Group: Labor Demography successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Disease, Death, and Displacement: The long-term effects of early-life conditions on income, education, and health in Sweden, 1937-2011“ at Lund University. more
May 03, 2021 | PAA 2021
Several MPIDR researchers present their work at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, which takes place in a virtual manner from May 5-8, 2021. The Institute also has an exihibition booth. more
April 27, 2021 | Congratulations
Inna Danilova from the Laboratory of Demographic Data successfully defended her doctoral thesis on "Spatial and temporal consistency of cause-specific mortality data" at the University of Rostock. more
April 22, 2021 | Research Funding
Pekka Martikainen receives a 2.5 million Euro grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to conduct the project “Social inequalities in population health: integrating evidence from longitudinal, family-based and genetically informed data”. more
March 25, 2021 | Welcome to the MPIDR
Questions about international migration are what drives Jisu Kim’s research the most. The new researcher in the Digital and Computational Demography Lab comes from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. more
February 19, 2021 | Call for Papers
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting childbearing and family processes around the globe. This conference aims at bringing together scholars who examine fertility and family change in times of the pandemic. We invite submissions that document fertility and family trends. more
February 11, 2021
Diversity of talented researchers enhances the research and discoveries we deliver as a scientific community. The United Nations is raising awareness of the critical role women and girls play in science and technology with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. At the MPIDR, we believe in the power of diverse talents and are celebrating this day by showing what research questions drive our female researchers the most. more
January 25, 2021 | Welcome to the MPIDR
What networks do scientists form to carry out their scientific work? That's what Aliakbar (Ali) Akbaritabar, a new Researcher in the Digital and Computational Demography Lab, wants to find out. What he likes best about Rostock is its proximity to the sea – reminding him fondly of Brest, the French coastal city where he opted for a career driven by science. more