Dalkhat Ediev
Senior Research Scholar
Multidimensional Demographic Modeling Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Senior Research Scholar
Health, Ageing and Health Systems Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Dalkhat Ediev is a senior research scholar in the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program, jointly associated with the Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) and the Health, Ageing and Health Systems (H2A) research groups. He first joined IIASA in May 2013 and is currently working on projection models, population ageing, and formal demography. In addition, since 2005, he has been a researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography. His research interests include population change and projections, population ageing, formal demography, demographic methods and models.Ediev graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1993, where he also obtained his PhD in 1999. In 2002, he was granted the Docent degree in mathematics by the Russian Highest Attestation Commission and in 2008, he was granted the degree of Doktor Nauk (Doctor of Sciences) in physical-mathematical sciences by the Russian Highest Attestation Commission.
Last update: 08 JAN 2026
Publications
Scherbov, S. , Pothisiri, W., Prasitsiriphon, O., Ediev, D. , & Sanderson, W. (2026). Survival and life expectancy inequality by gender in Thai provinces: Trends from 2015 to 2023. PLoS ONE 21 (5) e0348587. 10.1371/journal.pone.0348587.
Ediev, D. (2025). Demographics of genetic admixture and expansion. Biosystems e105455. 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105455.
Scherbov, S. , Gietel-Basten, S., Ediev, D. , Shulgin, S., & Sanderson, W. (2022). COVID-19 and excess mortality in Russia: Regional estimates of life expectancy losses in 2020 and excess deaths in 2021. PLOS ONE 17 (11) e0275967. 10.1371/journal.pone.0275967.
Ediev, D. (2022). Age Exaggeration Ruses: Infrequent Age Overstatement Distorts the Mortality Curve at Old Age. In: Quantitative Methods in Demography. Eds. Skiadas, C.H. & Skiadas, C., pp. 189-205 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-93005-9 10.1007/978-3-030-93005-9_12.
Ediev, D. (2020). Population heterogeneity is a critical factor of the kinetics of the COVID-19 epidemics. medRxiv 10.1101/2020.06.25.20140442. (Submitted)