The then President of the German Bundestag, Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, at the 2019 award ceremony (from left to right: Franz Müntefering, award winners Bruno Arpino and Ridhi Kashyap, Wolfgang Schäuble, Ulrich Lilie)
Since 2015, Population Europe has organised the selection procedure for the European Demographer Award (formerly the Allianz European Demographer Award), which supports outstanding research on the causes and consequences of demographic change in Europe. The research should be at the frontier of anthropological, biological, economic, historical, mathematical, political, sociological or statistical population studies, achieved by researchers in the early stage of their careers or those at a more advanced stage.
The evaluation committee is composed of eminent demographers from all over Europe, simultaneously representing different fields of research. The members who served on the various 2015-2024 committees are listed here.
You can find most recent calls for nominations here.
The award presentation usually takes place during the opening ceremony of the Berlin Demography Days.
Former award winners
- Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (2023), Leader of the Independent Research Group “Kinship Inequalities” at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
- Daniele Vignoli (2023), Full Professor of Demography, Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications “G. Parenti” at the University of Florence, Italy, President of the Italian Association for Population Studies and Scientific Coordinator of the programme “Age-It, Ageing Well in an Ageing Society”
- Sergi Trias-Llimós (2022), Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow at the Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Matthew Wallace (2022), Researcher at the Demography Unit of the Sociology Department at Stockholm University
- Alyson van Raalte (2022), Head of the research group: Lifespan Inequalities at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
- José Manuel Aburto (2021), Newton International Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop), University of Southern Denmark, Odense
- Carlo Giovanni Camarda (2021), Research Scientist and Head of the research unit UR 05: Mortalité, Santé, Épidémiologie at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques
- Iñaki Permanyer (2020), Researcher, Center for Demographic Studies (CED) Barcelona
- Alice Goisis (2020), Associate Professor in Demography at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London
- Bruno Arpino (2019), Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications, University of Florence
- Ridhi Kashyap (2019), Associate Professor of Social Demography, Department of Sociology, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
- Kieron Barclay (2018), Deputy Head Laboratory of Population Health, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
- Fanny Janssen (2018), Associate Professor, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen
- Tomáš Sobotka (2017), Research Group Leader on Comparative European Demography, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna University
- Felix C. Tropf (2017), Assistant Professor in Social Science Genetics, CREST/ENSAE / Associate member, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford and Nuffield College
- Helga A. G. de Valk (2016), Theme Leader Migration & Migrants, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Den Haag
- Jakub Bijak (2015), Joint Head of the Department of Social Statistics and Demography Professor of Statistical Demography, University of Southampton
The award is generously granted in collaboration with the Stifterverband and Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin and has been kindly supported by Allianz from 2015 to 2019.