About

Maria Winkler-Dworak joined the Vienna Institute of Demography in 1999. She also was lecturing population economics at the University of Bamberg (2007) and demographic methods at the University of Vienna (2008-2016). Since 2017, she has been Managing Editor of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research.

Maria Winkler-Dworak received her doctorate in mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology in 2002 with her dissertation on the nexus of population growth, food insecurity and environmental degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her current research interests include various aspects of fertility, cohabitation, and marriage; recently, with a particular focus on the modelling and simulation of family life courses. Besides her work on family change, she also has published on the ageing and longevity of members of European learned societies.