Autor: Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

Jakub Bijak is Professor of Statistical Demography at the University of Southampton. He has background in economics (Ph D 2008, Warsaw School of Economics) and over 20 years’ work experience in academia and international civil service. His research focuses on demographic uncertainty, population and migration models and forecasts, and the demography of armed conflict. He has been awarded the Allianz European Demographer Award (2015) and the Jerzy Z Holzer Medal (2007) for work on migration modelling. Leader of a European Research Council project “Bayesian agent-based population studies” (www.baps-project.eu), and a Horizon 2020 project “Quant Mig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy” (www.quantmig.eu).