New Faces at MPIDR | October 17, 2024

Welcome, Boris Barron!

Boris Barron joins the team at the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility. Boris comes from Cornell University, where he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on "Applications of Information Theory to Modelling Complex Systems". While working with at the MPIDR over the next three years, Boris aims to further refine the modelling process and apply these ideas to systems where they could be most useful. More

October

Scientific Presentations

Talks@BIOSFER

2 pm - 3 pm
Julia Hellstrand (University of Helsinki) - Predicting ultimate childlessness by education in the Nordic countries
Thea Grindstad (NIPH) - Trying to disentangle the effects of PFASs on miscarriage risk using the MoBa cohor
Camilla Lomholt Kjersgaard (Aarhus University) - Atopic dermatitis and time to pregnancy More

All Events

Latest Publications | September 12, 2024

Summer 2024

Call for Papers

Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity

Introduction to our research groups

Fertility and Well-Being

October 15, 2024

The Debate on the Limits of Human Life Extension Continues

What's the upper limit of human life expectancy? Researchers tackle this question in a study published in Nature Aging, noting the slowdown in the rate of increase since 1990 and the implausibility of radical life extension this century. However, Dmitri Jdanov and Domantas Jasilionis from the Max Planck Institute provide a more hopeful commentary in the same journal, arguing that it is important to consider optimistic scenarios. More

Selected Publications

Akbaritabar, A.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:

Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020 Scientific Data 11:816, 1–14. (2024)

Gueltzow, M.; Oude Groeniger, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Jansen , P. W.; Houweling, T. A. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.:

Childhood obesity's influence on socioeconomic disparities in young adolescents’ mental health Annals of Epidemiology 94, 19–26. (2024)

More Publications

Career

Open Positions

Call for Papers

Measuring Migration in Latin America

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New Issue 3/2024 available | September 24, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

New articles every week

News | July 17, 2024

Sharing is Caring – Open Science in Demographic Research

Open Access

Online Available Books

Award | October 14, 2024

Jan M. Hoem Paper Award for Angela Carollo

Angela Carollo is a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and a member of the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being. She received the Jan M. Hoem Paper Award for her paper “Event history analysis with two time scales. An application to transitions out of cohabitation”, authored by Angela together with Hein Putter, Paul H.C. Eilers and Jutta Gampe. The award was presented to Angela Carollo at the MPIDR Autumn Festival in October. More