Curriculum

Short Bio

Stefano Mazzuco is an Full Professor in Demography at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova. His main interest is on mortality dynamics, population forecasting, health inequalities. His research is characterized by a mainly quantitative approach used to correctly identify the demographic dynamics. He also recently addressed the mortality crisis due to Covid-19 outbreak.

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Research Areas

Premature mortality — Health inequality — Population forecasting — Hierarchical models.

H-INDEX

(updated at March 2023)

• Web of Science: 13 (n.total citations: 767; average number of citations per publication: 21.91)

• Scopus: 14 (n.total citations: 802; average number of citations per publication: 20.56)

• Google Scholar: 19 (n. total citations: 1894; average number of citations per publication: 15.15)

Employment history

2023–... Full Professor in Demography, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova.

2014–2028 Qualified for Full professor, in Demography and Social Statistics.

2011–2023 Associate Professor in Demography, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova.

2007–2011 Assistant Professor in Social Statistics, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova.

2003–2005 Post-doc position, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova.

Visiting Periods

— 10/2000 - 3/2001: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock (Germany) - Reference: Francesco C. Billari

— June, 2001: Institut national d'ètudes dèmographiques (INED), Paris (France) - Reference: Laurent Toulemon

— June, 2005: Institute for Social & Economic Research (ISER) - Reference: Arnstein Aassve

— 8/2018 - 9/2018: School of Demography - Australian National University - Reference: Vladimir Canudas-Romo

Reviewing Activity

• Associate editor of "Statistical Methods & Applications". (2016-2019)

• Associate editor of "Demographic Research" (since April 1st 2022)

• Reviewing activity for: Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Demographic Research, Rivista di Statistica Ufficiale, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Advances in Life Course, Genus, BioMed Research, Population Studies, European Journal of Population Research, International Journal of Epidemiology, Population Health Metrics, BMJ.

Student Advising

• Master students: I supervised several Master students for their final thesis on the following topics: Fertility modelling, Impact of economic recession on demographic behaviour, Health inequality

• Phd Supervisor: Gebrehiwot Haftu ("Implementing Hierarchical Bayesian Model to Fertility Data: The Case of Ethiopia", graduated in 2015), Zanotto Lucia ("A Mixture Distribution to Differentiate Between Mortality Components", graduated in 2017), Adil Muhammad ("Projecting Pakistan Population with a Bayesian Hierarchical Approach", graduated in 2018), Fazle Rabbi Ahbab Mohammad ("Point and interval forecasts of mortality rates and life expectancy for population with notable early aged mortality", graduated in 2019)

• Post-doc Supervision:

  • 2019-2020: Stefanucci Marco, Project title: "Applying functional data analysis to demographic data"

  • 2017-2018: Zanotto Lucia, Project title: "A Hierarchical Mortality Model and its Applications"

  • 2012: Toffolutti Veronica, Project title: "Successful ageing: definitions, circumstances, implications"

Conference Organisation

•  February 2009: Member of Scientific Committee of "Giornate di studio della Popolazione" (Milano).

•  September 2011: Member of Scientific and Organizing Committee of "YOUPOP Incontro tra giovani studiosi di popolazione" (Firenze).

•  June 2013: Member of Scientific Committee of SIS (Italian Statistical Society) Congress "Advances in Latent Variables Methods, Models and Applications" (Brescia).

• February 2014: Member of Scientific Committee of "The biometrics of the menstrual cycle. A conference in honor of Bernardo Colombo" (Padova).

• September 2015: Member of Organizing Committee of SIS (Italian Statistical Society) Congress "Statistics and Demography: the Legacy of Corrado Gini" (Treviso).

• June 2020: Member of Organizing Committee (as "conference coordinator") of European Population Conference (Padova) - the conference has been cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak

• September 2021: Member of Scientific and Organizing Committee of "New data for the new challenges in population and society" (Padova).

•  June 2022: Convener (Topic "Data and Methods") of European Population Conference 2022 (Groningen).

• August 2022 Member of Scientific and Organizing Committee of “Climbing Mortality Models” (Misurina).