Tomáš Sobotka

Tomáš Sobotka

Deputy Director (interim)

Research Group: Fertility and Family

Phone: +43 1 51581 - 7716

Tomas Sobotka is deputy director (interim) of the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and leads the VID research group on Fertility and Family.
He received his PhD in Demography from the Population Research Centre, University of Groningen (Netherlands) in 2004. In 2005–10 he was managing editor of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research and in 2012–17 he was the principal investigator of the ERC-funded research project EURREP (Fertility and Reproduction in 21st Century Europe, www.eurrep.org ). In February 2017 he received the “Allianz European Demographer Award”. Currently he is a member of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) Council.

T. Sobotka studies a broad range of topics related to fertility and family changes, including childlessness, fertility measurement, fertility intentions and assisted reproduction, as well as migration and population trends in Europe. He has initiated the Cohort Fertility and Education (CFE) database (www.cfe-database.org ) and together with Joshua Goldstein and Vladimir Shkolnikov (MPIDR, Rostock) he has initiated the Human Fertility Database (http://www.humanfertility.org ).

Human Fertility Database:
www.humanfertility.org

Human Fertility Collection:
http://www.fertilitydata.org

CFE (Cohort Fertility and Education)database:
https://cfe-database.org/database/

European Fertility Data Sheet 2015:
www.fertilitydatasheet.org

European Demographic Data Sheet 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020:
www.populationeurope.org*

Birth Barometer / Geburtenbarometer Austria, Geburtenbarometer Vienna:
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/data/geburtenbarometer-austria-and-vienna/

Research Areas

Fertility and Family

Areas of Expertise

Fertility and Family Change in Low-fertility Settings
Fertility Measurement
Fertility Intentions & Ideals
Education and Fertility, Assisted Reproduction

curriculum vitae

publications

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