Marcus Ebeling

Marcus Ebeling serves as Deputy Head of Population Health at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, where he leads the Laboratory of Population Health and contributes to the MaxHel Center. His research focuses on mortality trends, health inequalities, and demographic analysis with particular emphasis on longevity and aging populations.

His primary research interests include mortality dynamics across the life course, spatial health disparities (particularly urban-rural divides), cardiovascular epidemiology, and exceptional longevity studies. Ebeling's work extensively utilizes Swedish and German population registers, including the AMORIS cohort, to investigate how social determinants, chronic diseases, and healthcare systems influence health trajectories in aging populations. His recent projects examine the social and economic determinants of physical and mental health, spatial inequalities in health and mortality, disability progression in older adults, and US health disadvantages compared to other high-life-expectancy countries.

Ebeling's publication record demonstrates a strong focus on centenarian studies and post-pandemic health analysis, with recent work analyzing how disease avoidance mechanisms contribute to exceptional longevity and how myocardial infarction incidence continues declining post-COVID-19. His research consistently reveals how mortality plateaus operate across disease states and how rural disadvantages in cardiovascular outcomes stem from disease incidence rather than fatality rates.

His methodological approach combines advanced demographic techniques with epidemiological analysis, frequently employing nationwide register data from Sweden and Germany to produce high-impact findings published in journals like Demography, The Lancet Regional Health, and European Journal of Epidemiology.