We warmly congratulate Dr Elena Rakuša! After successfully defending her dissertation entitled "Health Care and Social Networks in the Context of Neurodegeneration and Mortality in Old Age and End of Life", she was awarded her doctorate by the Faculty Council of the WSF at the University of Rostock.

Congratulations to our research assistants Jonas Mauersberger and Oliver Nix on officially receiving their graduation certificates!

Team dinner to start the semester – with farewells, welcomes and good conversations

Prof. Dr. Nandita Saikia during her guest lecture on the topic "Charting the course: India’s triumphs and
future horizons in population health“

Prof. Dr. Nandita Saikia (from IIPS in Mumbai) is currently our Mare Balticum Fellow in Rostock, contributing her expertise in the areas of population studies and life expectancy.

Here she is at a meeting with the dean, the vice-rector, and chair holder Prof. Doblhammer.

#demography

There will be another guest lecture by Prof. Nandita Saikia on June 3, 2025. If you are interested, please register.

The event will take the form of an interactive talk focusing on social science and #demography in India.

As part of the Mare Balticum Fellowship Program, a guest lecture by Prof. Nandita Saikia (International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) in Mumbai) will take place on 28 May 2025.

Title: “Charting the course: India's triumphs and future horizons in population health”

Today, Constantin Reinke successfully defended his thesis on “Dementia Risk Factors Over The Life Course - Identification, Trajectories and Pathways”. PhDone. Congratulations!

Our PhD student Poulami Barman recently met one of her thesis supervisors, Prof Nandita Saikia, in Mumbai to discuss the research on #mortality and #dementia challenges in India, part of the joint PhD programme between University of Rostock and International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai.

Das ESF-Team beim diesjährigen 15. Rostocker Firmenlauf im Stadthafen am 26. Juni- leicht erschöpft, aber happy nach dem Zieleinlauf bei bestem Sommerwetter 😎

Introductory article published in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS):

#Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the #Transformation of Socialist Countries (Ed.: Gabriele Doblhammer, Zsolt Spéder)

www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...

Neue Publikation - Beitrag in Sammelband veröffentlicht:

Georges, Daniela & Doblhammer, Gabriele: Älter und diverser: Demografische Entwicklungen in Deutschland und ihre Herausforderungen für die Gesundheitsversorgung und Pflege.

#Demografie

Nachwuchspreisverleihung DGD 2024- Benjamin Aretz erhält eine Auszeichnung für seine Dissertation "Health consequences of exposure to environmental living conditions: Pathways and spatial patterns in Europe"
- betreut von Prof. Dr. G. Doblhammer (Univ. Rostock)/Prof. Dr. F. Janssen (Univ. Groningen)

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Doblhammer and Dr. Daniela Georges are represented at this year's DGD annual conference with sessions on "Social Inequalities in #Morbidity and #Mortality in a Comparative Perspective" and "Demographic Data/Methods for Western and Northern Europe".

dgd-online.de/jahrestagung...