About

Demoscapes – a visual atlas of demographic surfaces.

Demoscapes is building a home for demographic surfaces, with interactive tools for seeing how population processes unfold across two time dimensions. Join our community of contributors and have your research featured on demoscapes by visiting demoscapes.org/contribute.

Collaborators

Diego Alburez-Gutierrez

Diego Alburez-Gutierrez leads the Kinship Inequalities Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. His work explores kinship structures, family bereavement, and intergenerational relations. Diego helps develop the R packages DemoKin and rsocsim for modeling kinship dynamics using mathematical and simulation models. He earned his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics in 2019.

Collections: Alburez-Gutierrez et al. 2023, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Ilya Kashnitsky

Senior Researcher @ Statistics Denmark. Associate Member at Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford. Demographer, highly interested in dataviz, my workflow goes through R/RStudio.

Collections: Kashnitsky et al. 2019, Mortality

José Manuel Aburto

José Manuel joined LSHTM in 2022 as Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography. He leads the Mortality and Inequalities Research group within PSG. Before joining LSHTM he held the Newton International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships at University of Oxford and was Assistant Professor at University of Southern Denmark. José Manuel received his MA in Demography at El Colegio de México, training at the European Doctoral School of Demography at Sapienza University of Rome, and PhD in Demography at the University of Southern Denmark and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in 2020.

Collections: Kashnitsky et al. 2019, Mortality

Angela Carollo

Angela Carollo is a Statistical Analyst and Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. She is the author and contributor of the R-package TwoTimeScales. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Statistics and Demography. In her PhD dissertation she proposes a model for time-to-event data over multiple time scales.

Collections: Carollo et al. 2025, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Fertility

Leah Abrams

Leah Abrams is a population health and aging researcher in the Tufts University Department of Community Health. She came to Tufts from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies where she was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Abrams' research and teaching interests include social epidemiology, health policy, population aging, mortality trends, work/retirement, and mental health. She holds a PhD in health policy and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Collections: Abrams et al. 2026, Mortality, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Contact

Demoscapes is managed and developed by Jonas Schöley at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. For questions please contact

Dr. Jonas Schöley
Konrad Zuse Str. 1
18057 Rostock
schoeley@demogr.mpg.de

Source code for the app is available from github.com/jschoeley/demoscapes.

Early contributions to the app were made by Aishwarya Murali Krishnan during her time as student assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.