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Image Ass. Prof. Mathias Lerch Assistant Professor & Head of the Urban Demography Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Image Prof. Dr. Pieter Vanhuysse Professor at Department of Political Science and Public Management and Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark
Image Prof. Dr. Anna Oksuzyan Professor at Bielefeld University School of Public Health, Chair of Demography and Health
Image Prof. Dr. Annette Baudisch Professor MSO at Demography Unit, Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPOP), University of Southern Denmark, SDU
Image Prof. Dr. Pearl Dykstra Professor, Empirical Sociology, and Deputy Chair of the Group of Chief Scientists advising the Cabinet of Commissioners in Europe at Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam