About me...

I am a scientist studying the determinants of mortality and population ageing. I studied for a degree in Demography before completing a doctorate on the relationship between family characteristics and mortality at the University of Rostock, Germany. During this time I was situated at the Laboratory of Survival and Longevity, headed by James W. Vaupel, at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. I am now a post-doc at the Demography Unit of Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institutet.

At Stockholm University I am a project member of the "Register-based Research in Nordic Demography". Here I continue my work on the impact of family and social characteristics on mortality but also started a new project on the relation between migration and mortality. All my work here is based on Swedish register data that includes many demographic and social characteristics of the whole Swedish population.

At Karolinska Institutet I am part of a group at the Institute of Environmental Medicine. Here we work on trends in basic mortality patterns, healthy life expectancy and old age mortality.

This website is work in progress but will soon contain an overview on my work and interests. A shorter .pdf version of my CV can be downloaded as well.

Publications

An updated list of papers can be found here.