Tianyu Shen
Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Tianyu.Shen@oeaw.ac.at
Dominikanerbastei 16
1010 Vienna, Austria
I’m a postdoc researcher at the VID. I completed my 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”. My research centres on the analysis of social inequalities in health and multistate modelling to capture population dynamics.
I’ve also done some consulting work for the government on population projections, like “ACT population projections” and “ACT School enrollment projection”. I’m also interested in different indirect estimation methods.
news
Jun 16, 2025 | Our new paper: The role of education composition in shaping the burden of obesity and diabetes in Indonesia: a microsimulation-based projection study published in Population Health Metrics |
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May 14, 2025 | Presented our paper on Educational Inequalities in Healthy Longevity: An Intersectional Analysis of Race in the United States at REVES Conference 2025 in Tampere, Finland |
Apr 11, 2025 | Presented our paper on Improving Mortality Estimation in Data-Scarce Context: Leveraging Population Change Information at Population Association of America 2025 Annual Meeting in Washington DC |
selected publications
- Modeling Disability-Free Life Expectancy With Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the Bias in the Markov AssumptionDemography, Dec 2024. Code can be found here.
- Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to the Multiple Multistate Method (MMM)Sociological Methods & Research, Sep 2024. Code can be found here.
- Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research NoteDemography, Nov 2023. Code can be found here.
- The Components of Change in Population Growth RatesDemography, Apr 2022. Interactive results can be found here.