Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)

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🎓🎩Congratulations, Donata Stonkute! She successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Measuring and Explaining the Educational Gradient in Health Across Europe: The Role of Individual and Contextual Factors” at the University of Helsinki. IMPRS-PHDS
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/phdds

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We're happy to announce that Jutta Gampe has been appointed to the Chair of Excellence in Transformative Change: Statistical Demography at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/chair_of_excellence_for_jutta_gampe_14996

Diagram shows predicted divorce probabilities for same-sex and opposite-sex couples in five models.

👓🌈Recommended Reading📚🏳️‍🌈
Married Female Couples at Highest Risk of Divorce
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/recommended_reading_14980
Maria Ponkilainen, Elina Einiö, Mine Kühn Kühn, Mikko Myrskylä
#Children #cohabitation #divorce #family #LGBTQ #marriage

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Bar chart showing distribution of relationship types to relatives by type of relationship, with intensity ratings for closeness and support.

Bar chart shows differences in family relationships by ethnicity with categories such as close and distant.

Family research usually focuses on the nuclear family. Relationships with other relatives have hardly been studied to date. Yet these relations play an important role: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/important_relatives_14970
Bettina Hünteler Diego Alburez

📣Calls of Abstracts‼️Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis
Theory, methods, & applications
📅August 18-19, 2026
🗺️Hertie School, Berlin
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/calendar_1921/second_international_workshop_on_life_course_analysis_14953
Christian Dudel Carla Rowold

Happy New Year!
2026 already offers lots of opportunities to join or visit the MPIDR – last call!

These four MPIDR calls end in January.

Jobs:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
Visit:
incubator.demogr.mpg.de
Conference:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Looking for a new position in 2026? The call for a new postdoc or research scientist in the newly formed research group on Reproductive Ageing by D. Susie Lee is still open until January 11.

Apply now!

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) looks back on an eventful and successful year. We wish all MPIDR employees, research partners, and supporters a peaceful holiday season and a happy New Year.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
📸 iStockphoto.com / Jenny Sturm

Familie, Geburtenverhalten von Geflüchteten und palliative Versorgung von Demenzkranken
Die neue Ausgabe von Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand, dem demografischen Newsletter mit verständlich aufgearbeiteten Ergebnissen der aktuellen Forschung, ist erschienen.
demografische-forschung.org

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Diagram shows estimated changes in the migrant population after a one-month travel ban for France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the US by country of origin.

Estimate of the change in the migrant population due to a one-month travel ban in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the US by country of origin.

Jordan D. Klein & Ingmar Weber published a Letter to the Editor in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that opens a conversation on the findings of Chi et al (Measuring global migration flows using online data). https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/PNAS-Letter-Editor

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WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR!
👋👋👋 The Laboratory of Fertility & Wellbeing welcomes Jiseon Baek as a new research scientist. Jiseon is enthusiastic about investigating disparities in reproductive outcomes.
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_jiseon_baek_14907

Recap of the IMPRS-PHDS Annual Academy 2025 at MPIDR: When the weather outside turns cold, doctoral students, alumni, faculty members, and friends gather in the cozy MPIDR auditorium:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/imprs_phds_annual_academy_2025_14689

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR 👏👏👏
We welcome Aijie Zhang to the Laboratory of Fertility and Wellbeing. Her doctoral research will focus on fertility dynamics and patterns in high-income countries.
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_aijie_zhang_14910

🌍🌎🌏New Research Questions for Climate Change🌍🌎🌏
In mid-November, numerous scientists from around the world gathered at the MPIDR in Rostock to discuss the topic of “Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics”. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Many thanks to everyone who took part in the 7th IMPRS-PHDS Academy at @mpidr.bsky.social, either in person or online, and helped to make it such a success. Big congratulations to Andrea Colasurdo, Chiara Micheletti and @lauraleone.bsky.social on winning the Best Poster Award!

We’ve got a strong contingent of PhD students and staff at the three-day @imprs-phds.bsky.social Annual Academy being held from 3-5 December @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock, Germany! 💙 @maryabedalahad.bsky.social @ischiathere.bsky.social

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WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR 👏👏👏We welcome Jan Einhoff as new research scientist. His main research interests are in social demography, life course research, and quantitative methods. His dissertation examined the social stratification of late working lives in Europe.
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/welcomeJein

Stellenanzeige für Sachbearbeiter*in in der Buchhaltung beim Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung.

‼️Jobangebot‼️
Zur Verstärkung unserer Institutsverwaltung suchen wir unbefristet eine*n Sachbearbeiter*in Buchhaltung (m/w/d)
Bewerbungsschluss: 5. Januar 2026
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/de/karriere_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/sachbearbeiter_in_buchhaltung_m_w_d_14866

As always, it is a pleasure to have everybody here!

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR
We welcome Elena Pojman 👏👏👏. Before MPIDR, Elena was a dual-title Ph.D. candidate in sociology and demography at Penn State University. Her research focuses on social stratification & how it affects how people spend their time & money.
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/welcomeEP

Congratulations Jan and welcome!

Come visit MPIDR in ☀️Summer 2026☀️
📣Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program"
📅☀️June 8th – August 21st, 2026☀️
🗺️MPIDR in Rostock, Germany
Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026
Apply here and learn more:
incubator.demogr.mpg.de

🚅🛫🧳MPIDR on Tour"
What a successful visit to Vienna looks like: In Nov, we joined the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025 on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century". Poster awards for @athinaanas.bsky.social & Julie Kim (former MPIDR summer incubator student & MPIDR guest)

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open!

Deadline: Jan 14, 2026.

Topics/Teams:
1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production
2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities

Check out the brand new website for information:
www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

🎓🎓🎓Congratulations, @philippdierker.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉

He successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Partnership Dynamics and Changes in Health and Well-Being: A Bidirectional Relationship”. His findings are relevant to family sociology, public health, social policy.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy
Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE

MPIDRonTour! 🛄🛫 🚅 🚢This week Stefano Arnolfo presented his work on “The Cost of #Family Complexity: How Multipartnered #Fertility Shapes Earnings Trajectories in the Netherlands” at the Meeting of the @eaps.bsky.social Working Group on Register-Based Fertility Research at the University of Antwerp.

Oops! The social media team accidentally promoted Susie as the head of a second research group on slide two of this post, "Productive Ageing." We apologize for the typo. Of course, it should be "Reproductive Ageing."

However, we are open to ideas about what productive ageing looks like.

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/

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New Faces @MPIDR! Welcome, Aysha Basheer! 👋👋👋
Autumn is the time when many bright young scientists join MPIDR & become part of our team. This year's Welcome Weeks start with Aysha Basheer!
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_aysha_basheer_14850