Viorela Diaconu is a researcher in the Health and Longevity Research Group. Her research focuses on new demographic indicators and methods to better measure human longevity and lifespan disparities, particularly regarding mortality differences by cause of death and socio-economic status at older ages. Prior to joining the Health and Longevity Group, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Padua in Italy and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. Between these two fellowships, she worked at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. in Demography and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Montreal, Canada.

• Causes of death and their contribution to changes in lifespan disparity below the modal age at death (i.e., most frequent age) in high-income countries
• Effects of shifts in the timing of deaths on age-specific mortality rates and period life expectancy
• Decomposition of modal age at death by cause of death

Diaconu, V., van Raalte, A., Martikainen, P. (2022). Why we should monitor disparities in old-age mortality with the modal age at death, PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0263626

Riffe, T., Acosta, E., et al. [including Diaconu, V.]. (2021). Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths, International Journal of Epidemiology, 50(2): 390-390f, doi:10.1093/ije/dyab027.

Diaconu, V., Ouellette, N., and Bourbeau, R. (2020). Modal lifespan and disparity at older ages by leading causes of death: A Canada-U.S. comparison, Journal of Population Research, 37: 323-344, doi:10.1007/s12546-020-09247-9.