Silvia Rizzi

Silvia Rizzi is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, affiliated with the CPop research center. Her work focuses on demographic and public health research, particularly in mortality modeling, forecasting, and health inequality. She is actively involved in teaching, supervision, and high-impact research projects.

• University: University of Southern Denmark
• Affiliation: CPop
• Rank: Associate Professor

Her research centers on non-parametric modeling, mortality trends, and health disparities. She develops statistical methods for forecasting mortality, especially in the context of pandemics and climate change. Her work integrates demographic theory with advanced statistical techniques to analyze population health outcomes.

Her recent publications highlight innovations in short-term mortality forecasting, excess death estimation during the pandemic, and the impact of aging on environmental mortality. These works span journals in epidemiology, demography, and environmental health, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary approach.

She has received notable recognition for her research:

• PAA 2025 Poster Award
• Early-Career Researcher Prize 2022 from Population Journal

Silvia Rizzi supervises PhD students, including Ainhoa Leger, and teaches courses such as Research Design and Data Management and Introduction to R. She is a principal investigator on the project 'Excess deaths and life-years lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark' and participates in major grants like the AXA Chair in Longevity Research and the ERC Advanced Grant 'Unequal Lifespans'. Her collaborative network includes researchers across Europe and beyond.

She is actively involved in academic events, having organized the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium and presented at numerous conferences and workshops on mortality modeling and demographic methods.