About
Ruslan Basyrov is a student research assistant at the University of Vienna. Before studying in the Global Demography Master's program, he finished his Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Social Informatics at the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg. Furthermore, he pursued education in computer science by spending a semester in the United States at Duke University, taking graduate statistics and computer science graduate courses, and completing training in École 42. His research experience includes working on a COVID-19 excess mortality project using death microdata at the Ministry of Health in Russia and various computer science-related topics.
Areas of Expertise
- Spatial Demography
- Ageing and Mortality
- Administrative data
Contact
Affiliation: University of Vienna E-Mail: ruslan.basyrov@univie.ac.at
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.