Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi

Biography

Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi is a guest research scholar in the Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program.

He is also an Academy Fellow at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University (ANU). He is also a Professor of Demography at the University of Tehran (on leave) and an Honorary Professor at the School of Demography at ANU.

His main research areas include fertility and family change, international and forced/refugee migration, Muslim demography, and population policies. His long-term research on Iran’s sharp fertility decline culminated in the 2009 prize-winning book (with McDonald and Hosseini-Chavoshi) titled, Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction. His research on refugee migration, including the co-edited (with Hugo and Kraly) volume on Demography of Refugees and Forced Migration, highlighted the need for more rigorous research on this important but under-researched topic. He is currently investigating Muslim migrant fertility and diversity in Europe.

Abbasi-Shavazi is a founding member and past President of the Asian Population Association, and a council member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (2022-2025). He received several scientific prizes including the 2011 United Nations Population Award.


Last update: 17 APR 2024