Tianyu Shen is a researcher of the Health and Longevity research group. His research centers on the analysis of social inequalities in health and mortality, and the development of multistate models to capture population dynamics. Tianyu Shen completed his doctoral degree in 2025 at the Australian National University with the dissertation on “Living Longer and Healthier? An Advancement of Methodology and Understanding on Health Expectancy”. He has been research assistance in the School of Demography since 2021. He was involved in multiple population projection projects and migration estimation. Get more information on his scientific career and research at  https://tyashen.github.io.

• Decomposition of healthy life expectancy
• Population dynamics in aging and health
• Impact of education in cognitive-free life expectancy 
• Causes of differences in life expectancy between eastern and western Germany
• Life expectancy and health expectancy of Roma and Travellers in Europe 

Shen, T., Riffe, T., Payne, C. F., & Canudas-Romo, V. (2023). Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research Note. Demography, 60(6), 1675-1688. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11058373

Shen, T., and O’Donnell, J. (2024). Modeling Disability-free Life Expectancy with Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the bias in the Markov Assumption. Demography, 61(6),  https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11696463

Shen, T., Payne, C. F., & Jahromi, M. (2024). Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to the Multiple Multistate Method (MMM). Sociological Methods and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241241268775