Emilio Zagheni
Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
In the News:
- CSDE at PAA 2017 (4/18/2017)
- CSDE Fellow Lee Fiorio and CSDE Regional Affiliate Emilio Zagheni Co-author Study On Measuring Migration With Digital Trace Data (1/18/2021)
- Emilio Zagheni Earns Trailblazer Award at European Population Conference (9/6/2016)
- Emilio Zagheni Leverages Facebook as a Tool for Demographic Research (10/17/2017)
- Emilio Zagheni Presents a Model for Estimating Subnational Mortality (1/9/2018)
- IUSSP Webinar Series: Digital and Computational Approaches to Study Determinants and Consequences of the Spread of COVID-19 (6/30/2020)
- MPIDR Online Course in Digital and Computational Demography (9/12/2020)
- MPIDR Symposium on Digital Demography (Rostock, 10/17-10/18/18) (10/8/2018)
- MPIDR Symposium on Digital Demography hosted by Emilio Zagheni and featuring Matt Hall (10/8/2018)
- Population Research Discovery Seminar: How Does Big Data Contribute to Improved Demographic Knowledge? (11/11/2016)
- Sara Curran, Emilio Zagheni, and Neal Marquez to Present at IMPRS-PHDS Academy (11/3/2019)
- Spotlight on Neal Marquez, Fall 2018 Lightning Talks and Poster Session Winner (1/18/2019)
- Training Spotlight: Connor Gilroy, Adrian Raftery, and Emilio Zagheni Lead Workshops at International Population Conference (11/14/2017)
- Zagheni and Colleagues Explore Migration and Cultural Similarities Using Facebook Data (2/11/2022)
- CSDE Affiliate Zagheni and Co-Authors Publish in Population Research and Policy Review (10/8/2022)
Emilio Zagheni is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Previously, he served as Training Director of CSDE. He received his Ph.D. in Demography (2010) and M.A. in Statistics (2008) from U.C. Berkeley. Zagheni is best known for his work on combining digital trace data and traditional sources to track and understand migrations and to advance population science. In 2016 he received the Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis from the European Association for Population Studies for his role in developing the field of Digital and Computational Demography. Currently, he is a core leader of the training program Population, Health and Data Science in partnership with CSDE and other leading institutions at the forefront of demographic research
