Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
| Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
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 Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Max Planck Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: | Munich |
| Facility location: | Rostock |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Humanities , natural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Demography , human biology |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (50%), states (50%) |
| Management: | Mikko Myrskylä (Managing Director) |
| Employee: | ~ 170 |
| Homepage: | www.demogr.mpg.de |
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ( MPIDR ) is a non-university research facility of the Max Planck Society (MPG) in Rostock . The institute examines fundamental questions of population science , such as research into developments, structures and movements in human populations .
history
After 1945 and the marginalization of demographic research in Germany, the Max Planck Society decided in 1995 to set new impulses and to found its own research institute for demography. On October 1, 1996, the Max Planck Institute began its work under founding director James Vaupel . In 1999 Jan Hoem was appointed as the second director and another area of work was set up, before a new institute building on the Warnowufer replaced the temporary accommodation in November 2002. In 2004, on the joint initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the University of Rostock, the “Rostock Center for Research into Demographic Change” was founded, which, in addition to researching the causes and consequences of demographic change for Germany and Europe, acts as an intermediary between research and understand politics. In 2014, Mikko Myrskylä was appointed director and successor to Joshua Goldstein and Jan Hoem. Emilio Zagheni has been the second director with the work areas migration and digitization since 2018.
research
The institute conducts basic research and analyzes the causes, describes current trends and forecasts the further course of demographic processes. In addition, the research shows possible consequences that result from this for society. The research activity goes beyond the classic demographic work areas such as population structures, spatial population movements (migration), natural population movements (birth, deaths), population developments and distributions as well as historical demography.
The institute is divided into the following working groups:
- Demographic data (Laboratory of Demographic Data)
- Digital and computer-based demographics (Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography)
- Statistical Demography (Laboratory of Statistical Demography)
- Fertility and well-being (Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being) , since 2014
- Population and Health (Laboratory of Population Health) , since 2014
- Research group demographics of the work (Research Group: Laboratory Demography)
- Research Group: Inequalities in Death Age (Research Group: Lifespan Inequalities)
- Research group: Mathematical Demography (Research Group: Mathematical and Actuarial Demography)
- Max Planck Research Group Gender Differences in Health and Aging (Max Planck Research Group "Gender Gap in Health and Survival") , until winter 2020
The following working groups have carried out research at the institute in the past:
- Aging and Longevity (Laboratory of Survival and Longevity) , 1996-2014
- Historical Demography (Laboratory of Historical Demography) , 2000-2012
- Economic and Social Demography (Laboratory of Economic and Social Demography) , 2007–2012
- Max Planck Research Group Modeling the Evolution of Aging , 2009–2014
- Max Planck Research Group "Life Course Dynamics and Demographic Change"
With the virtual institute Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging), an important research platform for international cooperation and an interdisciplinary network within the Max Planck Society was linked to the institute in 2007.
In cooperation with the University of Rostock and other European universities, the institute was responsible for the International Max Planck Research School for Demography , a training program for doctoral students in demography. The program was replaced in 2012 by the “International Advanced Studies in Demography” program. The institute created additional programs to promote young talent in 2007 with the MaxNetAging Research School and in 2005 with the European Doctoral School of Demography , an eleven-month study program jointly created with twelve universities and five leading research institutes. The International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS), a new, three-year doctoral program that combines demography, epidemiology and data science, has also been in existence since 2018. Since 1999 the institute has published the journal Demographic Research and since 2004 the book series Demographic Research Monographs ( Springer ) as well as the Infoletter Demographic Research first hand .
The MPI for Demographic Research runs the project "Demographic Differences in Life-Course Dynamics in Eastern and Western Germany" (DemoDiff). The data from additional East German samples collected in the course of the DemoDiff project are compatible with the data from the large relationship and family panel pairfam , with which DemoDiff works closely. DemoDiff data can be obtained together with the pairfam data via the user service. The pairfam project is based on a collaboration with the University of Bremen , the Technical University of Chemnitz , the University of Mannheim and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . It is advised and supported by an international advisory board.
The institute also operates and maintains a number of databases that are available to researchers worldwide free of charge. These include the Human Mortality Database and the Human Fertility Database. and the International Database on Longevity
Infrastructure
The institute is run by two directors. The scientific management of the departments is subject to the directors and, below them, the leading researchers of the work area. The non-academic area is headed by the managing director and consists of the library, IT department, administration, and press and public relations work.
There are currently around 130 scientists and 40 administrative employees working at the institute. In addition, there are around 170 guest researchers and around 50 student assistants every year.
Demographic Research Journal
Since 1999 the Open Access journal "Demographic Research" has been published at the institute . The editor is Jakub Bijak, who is supported by several associate editors. The editorial office is located at the institute in Rostock.
literature
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research , in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - data and sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers A – L ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), pages 371–377 (chronology of the institute).
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ The Rostock Center, a brief history of its origins - as well as the current research focus, accessed on December 23, 2017.
- ↑ Max Planck International: Research Network on Aging: MaxNetAging (overview, English) , no article date in the article text, accessed on January 4, 2018.
- ↑ First-hand demographic research , accessed December 14, 2017.
- ↑ Organizational structure of pairfam , pairfam.de, accessed on February 7, 2018.
- ^ Human Mortality Database. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
- ^ Human Fertility Database. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
- ^ Database on Longevity. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Numbers and data: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research . September 28, 2011, accessed December 14, 2017.
- ↑ demographic-research.org: DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH: Statement of Purpose , accessed on February 26, 2019.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 38.5 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 39.2 ″ E