About
Tianyu Shen is a researcher of the Health and Longevity research group. His research centers on the analysis of social inequalities in health and mortality, and the development of multistate models to capture population dynamics. Tianyu Shen completed his doctoral degree in 2025 at the Australian National University with the dissertation on “Living Longer and Healthier? An Advancement of Methodology and Understanding on Health Expectancy”. He has been research assistance in the School of Demography since 2021. He was involved in multiple population projection projects and migration estimation. Get more information on his scientific career and research at https://tyashen.github.io.
Areas of Expertise
- Multistate modelling
- Healthy life expectancy
- Mortality
- Population growth and ageing
Contact
Affiliation: VID/ÖAW E-Mail: Tianyu.shen@oeaw.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 51581 7741
Other Resources
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.