Donata Stonkute

Donata Stonkute is an Affiliate Researcher at the Laboratory of Population Health within the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, specializing in demographic analysis of European health disparities with emphasis on the East-West divide and gender differences.

Her research spans Health Disparities, Educational Inequalities in Health, Cognitive Health, Hearing Loss, and Disability-Free Life Expectancy, utilizing advanced demographic methods like multistate life table analysis to examine how education and gender influence health trajectories in aging European populations.

Publications from 2023-2025 reveal consistent focus on educational gradients in cognitive health expectancy, comorbidity patterns between hearing loss and dementia, and regional disparities in disability-free life expectancy, highlighting persistent institutional and socioeconomic drivers of health inequality across Europe.

She contributes to the Laboratory of Population Health at MPIDR, which investigates demographic determinants of population health through large-scale European datasets and interdisciplinary collaboration.