Research Teams
 


Two teams of researchers have had primary responsibility for the creation of this database. Those teams are based in the Department of Demography of the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and in the Data Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Part of the UCB team is located at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR).

John Wilmoth (UCB) leads the team of researchers at Berkeley and is Director of the project. Vladimir Shkolnikov (MPIDR) heads the team at Max Planck and is Co-Director of the project. Dana Glei (UCB) is the Project Coordinator.

Dmitri Jdanov (MPIDR), Kirill Andreev, and Carl Boe (UCB) wrote the core computer programs that compute population estimates, death rates and life tables. Beate Danielsen provided programming assistance for checking data quality.

Carl Mason (UCB) created the structure for the internal document archive used by the Berkeley team and provides additional computer support. Lisa Yang is the Research Assistant, and Lindsay Bergstrom is the Student Assistant for the UCB team. Sigrid Gellers-Barkmann is the MPIDR Team Coordinator. Mila Andreeva is the Research Specialist and Database Manager for the UCB team at CIDR.

The following individuals are currently in charge of at least one country included in the HMD:

  • Dana Glei (UCB): Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland
  • Dmitri Jdanov (MPIDR): Austria, Russia, Ukraine
  • Domantas Jasilionis (MPIDR): Bulgaria, England and Wales, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia
  • Mila Andreeva (UCB): Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, United States
  • Mila Andreeva (UCB) & Shiro Horiuchi (UCB): Japan
  • Vladimir Canudas-Romo (UCB): Spain, Portugal and Taiwan
  • Pavel Grigoriev (MPIDR): Belarus and Czech Republic
  • Eva Kibele (MPIDR): Germany

Others who have worked for this project in the past, or for one its immediate predecessors, include: Michael Bubenheim (MPIDR), Barbara Chiang (UCB), Leo Deegan (UCB), Carolyn Hart (UCB), Romano Lasker (UCB), Guiping Liu (MPIDR), Anjali Menon (UCB), Marguerite Higa (UCB), Dimiter Philipov (MPIDR), Marian Rigney-Hawksworth (UCB), Rembrandt Scholz (MPIDR), Long Wang (UCB), Lijing Yan (UCB), Sibo Zhao (UCB), Delicia Nahman (UCB), Angel Chau (UCB) and , Ellen Guan (UCB).