Gabriele Doblhammer

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Gabriele Doblhammer , b. Gabriele Reiter (born December 5, 1963 in Wels , Austria ) is an Austrian social scientist specializing in demography . Since 2004 she has been professor for methods of empirical social research and demography at the University of Rostock .

Life

Doblhammer studied statistics from 1982 to 1988 at the University of Vienna and graduated with an MA . In 1989 she made her scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna .

1989–1992 Doblhammer was a statistician at ACNielsen , Marketing Research Company in Vienna. This was followed by a position as Junior Professional Officer at the United Nations Center for Human Settlements in Nairobi ( Kenya ) between 1992 and 1994 . She then went from 1995 to 1996 as a visiting scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis , Population Department in Laxenburg . Doblhammer then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Demography at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna from 1995 to 1998 , and from 1996 to 1997 also as a research assistant at the Institute for Family Research in Vienna.

Your doctorate as Dr. rer. soc. oec. at the university was entitled “Socioeconomic differentials in Austrian adult mortality”. Doblhammer then moved to Germany , from 1997–2004 she was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research , Dept. Survival and Longevity in Rostock.

In 2002 Doblhammer went to the Stanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke University ( North Carolina , USA ) as a Visiting Associate Professor . Doblhammer completed his habilitation in 2004 in the department of demography as Dr. rer. soc. oec. habil. at the University of Vienna. The title of the work was "The Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life". Since 2004 she has been professor for methods of empirical social research and demography at the University of Rostock. In 2017 she was elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Current research focuses are: health, longevity and quality of life of old people, early living conditions and longevity, reproduction and longevity, social inequality in morbidity and mortality, health care in demographic change , trends and patterns in the health of the older population, cognitive functioning and neurodegenerative diseases, care needs and care needs projections, migrant health.

More functions

  • since 2000 co-editor of the magazine "Demographic Research"
  • since 2004 founding member of the scientific advisory board of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD)
  • since 2006 Managing Director of the Rostock Center for Research into Demographic Change
  • since 2006 head of the research group "Regional and Local Population Forecasts and Planning" at the Rostock Center for Research into Demographic Change
  • since 2006 editor of the infoletter "Demographic research at first hand"
  • since 2007 editor of “Consequences of Demographic Change” VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden
  • since 2009 head of the National Dementia Register Germany at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases , Bonn
  • since 2016 President of the German Society for Demography

Publications (selection)

  • Doblhammer G. (2004), The Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life, Springer Verlag.
  • Doblhammer G. & Vaupel JW (2001), Life span depends on month of birth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 98: 5, 2934-2939.
  • Doblhammer G. & Kytir J. (2001), Compression or expansion of morbidity? Trends in Healthy-Life Expectancy of the Elderly Austrian population between 1978 and 1998, Social Science and Medicine 52, 385-391.
  • Doblhammer G. (2000), Reproductive History and Mortality Later in Life: A Comparative Study of England and Wales and Austria, Population Studies 54 (2), 169-176.
  • Doblhammer G. & Oeppen, J. (2003), The Effect of Frailty and Mortality Selection on the Relationship between Reproduction and Lonegevity: Evidence from the British Peerage. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B Biological Series 270, 1541-1547.
  • Christensen K., Doblhammer G., Rau R., Vaupel JW (2009) Aging populations: the challenges ahead, Lancet 374: 1196-208.
  • Doblhammer, G. van den Berg, GJ, Lumey, LH (February 2011) Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868, IZA Discussion Paper No. 5534.
  • Doblhammer, G .; Kreft, D. (2011): Live longer, suffer longer? Trends in life expectancy and health. Federal Health Gazette, 54: 907-914. doi: 10.1007 / s00103-011-1315-0
  • Kreft, D .; Doblhammer, G (2012) Contextual and individual determinants of health among Aussiedler and native Germans. Health & Place 18 (5): 1046-1055. doi: 10.1016 / j.healthplace.2012.05.008
  • Doblhammer, G .; Kreft, D .; Dethloff, A. (2012): Years of Life Gained. Long-term trends in mortality by cause of death in Germany and in an international comparison, Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 55: 448-458. doi: 10.1007 / s00103-012-1455-x

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015 ; accessed on July 1, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Homepage German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016 ; accessed on July 1, 2015 .
  3. ^ Authorities Spiegel, April 2016, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Doblhammer, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reiter, Gabriele (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social scientist specializing in demography
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels , Austria