Francesco Billari previously held academic positions at Oxford University and Nuffield College and was research director at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
His research focuses on population change, fertility and family, transition to adulthood, life course analysis, population forecasting, digitalization and demography, and comparative surveys. His work is published in leading scientific journals on demography, economics, epidemiology and public health, geography, sociology and statistics.
He has worked on numerous international projects and has been PI of a European Research Council Advanced Grant. He served as president and general secretary/treasurer of the European Association for Population Studies and received the 2012 Clogg Award from the Population Association of America. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Affiliate of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Francesco C. Billari
Professor of Demography & Rector, Bocconi University (Milan)