Christian Dudel

Christian Dudel is a distinguished researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), where he serves as Deputy Head of the Research Group: Labor Demography and a member of the Lab of Population Health. He is also affiliated with the Max Planck-University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health and a fellow of the Federal Institute for Population Research. His work spans demography, population health, statistics, and sociology, with a focus on labor market dynamics, fertility trends, multistate modeling, and social inequalities.

• Key Research Areas:
  • Working Life Expectancy
  • Male Fertility Analysis
  • Disability and Mortality
  • Educational Inequalities
  • COVID-19 Data Modeling (COVerAGE-DB)
• Notable Contributions:
  • Developed the dtms R package for discrete-time multistate models
  • Co-created COVerAGE-DB, a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases
  • Published extensively in journals like Demography, Sociological Methods & Research, and The Lancet Healthy Longevity
• Scientific Awards:
  • Fellow of the Federal Institute for Population Research
• Collaborations:
  • Partnerships with institutions like the World Health Organization, UN agencies, and German Federal Statistical Office
  • Teaching experience across five universities

Dudel is a proponent of open science, making his data, code, and methods publicly available via platforms like GitHub and Open Science Framework. His work on working-life expectancy and multistate modeling has been cited in major media outlets including Forbes Magazine and El País.