The German Society for Demography (DGD) awarded two Hertie School researchers! 🎉
@crowold.bsky.social was honoured for her dissertation on the gender pension gap, and @sinalw.bsky.social for her research on gender inequalities in well-being during the transition to parenthood.
Congrats! 👏
Announcement of the course ‘Microsimulation Methods in Demography: Fertility Applications’ from June 11 to 17, 2026, at the MPIDR in Rostock.
Practical introduction to microsimulation methods for demographic research with a focus on fertility modeling.
Course description on simulation techniques in demographic research with a focus on agent-based models and dynamic microsimulation.
Announcement of a workshop on microsimulation methods in demography with a focus on fertility applications, June 11–17, 2026.
‼️IDEM 118 Course‼️
𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆: 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
📅11-17 June 2026
🗺️Rostock, Germany
@mpidr.bsky.social, IMPRS-PHDS
📝Application deadline: March 13, 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2026-118
#Demography #Fertility #DynamicModels #AgentBasedModeling #DataScience #RStats
Gestern durfte ich am aQua-Institut meine Masterarbeit vorstellen – Grund: ich habe den diesjährigen Nachwuchspreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie in der Kategorie Masterarbeit erhalten! 🎉 Ich freue mich riesig über die Auszeichnung! 🥹
📣Calls of Abstracts‼️Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis
Theory, methods, & applications
📅August 18-19, 2026
🗺️Hertie School, Berlin
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/cale...
Christian Dudel Carla Rowold
❄️ Freezing cold outside? Perfect timing to submit your work for our Family Diversity & Health summer workshop in Berlin ☀️
📅 June 29–30, 2026
📍 Hertie School, Berlin
🫶 No participation fees
🏨 1 hotel night covered
📨 1-page abstracts due: Jan 31, 2026
Porträt von Anette Eva Fasang, die freundlich in die Kamera blickt. Sie trägt ein helles Oberteil vor einem neutralen, grauen Hintergrund; das Bild ist sachlich und professionell ausgeleuchtet.
🎉 Große Anerkennung für die #HumboldtUni: Anette Eva Fasang wurde zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt. Die Auszeichnung würdigt ihre exzellente Forschung zu Demografie, Sozialstruktur sowie zur Soziologie von Familien und Lebensverläufen. Mehr dazu 👉 www.hu-berlin.de/nachrichten/...
This week, we hosted “A PhD 101” with alumni @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social, @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social and @markuskollberg.bsky.social who shared insights from their own journey, and a workshop on how to kick off a successful PhD.
Our new cohort is ready to dive into their PhDs! 🚀
📢 Call for Papers 📢
Excited to co-edit a Special Issue on “Time Use and Family Dynamics in Contemporary Europe” in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS)!
We invite submissions using time-use data to advance research on family life across Europe.
🔗 www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
This week we welcomed our 6th (and final) cohort of doctoral researchers 🎉 @dynamics.bsky.social
We kicked off with an inspiring keynote by Ursula Daxecker and can’t wait to support these talented researchers on their PhD journey.
Excited to see all the amazing research projects ahead! 🚀
How cool is that? 4 of our MSc Demography students win gold medal at the #DataFest Germany / Hackathon for best visualization.
I am extremely happy for them for their great achievement!
Yes, they used R.
www.uni-rostock.de/universitaet...
We're thrilled to have bright students from around the world join us this week for our hybrid course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, presented by our researchers @akbaritabar.bsky.social, @ezagheni.bsky.social, Tom Theile, @jiisu.bsky.social and @conteristo.bsky.social!