We study the structure and dynamics of populations and explore issues of political relevance, such as aging, fertility, and the redistribution of work over the life course, as well as digitization and the use of new data sources for the estimation of migration flows.
New Faces at the MPIDR | November 13, 2026
Welcome, Paul Bachmann!
The Laboratory of Migration and Mobility welcomes Paul Bachmann as its new PhD student. Before joining the MPIDR Paul successfully finished his masters’ at the Free University of Berlin. During his PhD, he intends to explore how the global science system, including educational institutions, border and visa regimes, and political conditions, functions as a sorting machine for migration. He is particularly interested in how structural selection interacts with individual factors such as professional networks and personal aspirations. More
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Doctoral School
IMPRS-PHDS Core Course on Topics in Population, Health & Social Demography
This intensive two-week course introduces key substantive and methodological topics in population, health and social demography. More
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Call for Research Contributions
Rethinking Fertility Relationally
Recommended Readings | October 27, 2026
Who You Know, and Where You Work: What Shapes Researchers’ First Career Moves
Introduction to our research groups
Demographic Data
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
Selected Publications
Şanlitürk, A. E.; Billari, F. C.:
Search for a new home: refugee stock and Google search International Migration Review 59:1, 61–89. (2025)
Conte Keivabu, R.; Cozzani, M.; Wilde, J.:
Temperature and fertility: evidence from Spain Population Studies 79:2, 283–297. (2025)
More Publications
Call for Papers
Special Collection | Demographic Research | Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities
New Issue 3/2026 available | October 06, 2026
The Quarterly German Newsletter
Questions and Answers
Being a Researcher at the MPIDR
Working at MPIDR
Life & Research in Rostock
Career
Open Positions
Postdoc/Research Scientist in the Kinship Inequalities Research Group University of Hong Kong – Max Planck PhD Studentship in Population Studies Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program More
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal of population sciences
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Blog@MPIDR
Doctoral Program
International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science
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