Elisabetta Barbi

Elisabetta Barbi is Associate Professor of Demography at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) since 2008, where she teaches “Demography” and “Demographic Models”. After obtaining her PhD in Demography from Florence University (Italy), she worked as Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock (Germany) and as Associate Professor of Demography at Messina University (Italy). Elisabetta Barbi is the coordinator of the curriculum of Demography within the PhD program of Statistical Sciences at Sapienza University and a member of the Board of the European Doctoral School of Demography. She is Associate Editor of the scientific journal Genus (Springer). She is among the Experts for Population Europe, the network of Europe’s leading demographic research centers (www.population-europe.eu) as well as a contributor of the International Database on Longevity (www.supercentenarians.org). She is a member of the Italian Association for Population Studies within the Italian Statistical Society (www.sis-aisp.it) and of the Italian Society of Historical Demography (www.demostorica.it), of which has been also member of the Scientific Councils. Her research focuses on elderly mortality, selective survival, and longevity. Her recent work “The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers” has been published by Science (29 Jun 2018: Vol. 360, Issue 6396, pp. 1459-1461).