• Category: OPIK researcher⎥Assistant Professor
• Office:
  • ARABA: PDI03 (Education)⎥Juan Ibáñez de Sto. Domingo 1, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz ⎥ Tel. 945013416
  • BIZKAIA: 4.189 (Sociology)⎥ Sarriena Auzoa, z/g, 48940 Leioa ⎥ Tel. 94 6012313 
• Email: ainhoa.alustiza@ehu.eus

Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (UPV/EHU, 2000) and PhD in Demography (UAB, 2009). I have worked at the Center d'Estudis Demogràfics in Barcelona and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock (Germany). In this last research center, I worked both within the Population Europe network and within the Laboratory of Demographic Data (Data Lab) curating, updating, and constructing demographic databases and metadata. I still do PR work for the Data Lab.  

Since 2023 I work as a professor at the Faculty of Education and Sports (teaching) of Vitoria-Gasteiz and I am a member of the OPIK research group of the Department of Sociology and Social Work of the UPV/EHU.

In recent years my research work has focused on the creation and administration of the database for the study of the seasonality of mortality and fertility (Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations & Short-Term Fertility Fluctuations data series) as well as the study of excess mortality. Currently, one of my main focuses of interest is the dissemination and effective scientific communication of knowledge and research results among different audiences.

Sobotka, T.; Zeman, K.; Jasilioniene, A.; Winkler-Dworak, M.; Brzozowska, Z.; Alustiza-Galarza, A.; Németh, L.; Jdanov, D. A. (2023): Pandemic roller-coaster? Birth trends in higher-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Population and Development Review, 00(0): 1–36. DOI:10.1111/padr.12544

Shkolnikov, V. M.; Klimkin, I.; McKee, M.; Jdanov, D. A.; Alustiza-Galarza, A.; Németh, L.; Timonin, S. A.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Andreev, E. M.; Leon, D. A.: (2022): “What should be the baseline when calculating excess mortality? New approaches suggest that we have underestimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and previous winter peaks”, SSM – Population Health, vol. 18 (June 2022).

Nepomuceno, M.R., Klimkin,I., Jdanov, D.A., Alustiza-Galarza, A., Shkolnikov, V.M.  (2022): “Sensitivity Analysis of Excess Mortality due to the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Population and Development Review 0 (0): 1-24. 

Dmitri A. Jdanov, Ainhoa Alustiza-Galarza, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Domantas Jasilionis, László Németh, David A. Leon, Carl Boe & Magali Barbieri (2021): “The short-term mortality fluctuation data series, monitoring mortality shocks across time and space”. Nature Scientific Data, vol. 8, Article number: 235. 

Tim Riffe, Enrique Acosta, the COVerAGE-DB team (2021): “Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths”. International Journal of Epidemiology, vol.50, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 390–390f.

TRIAS-LLIMÓS, Sergi; ALUSTIZA, Ainhoa; PRATS, Clara; TOBIAS, Aurelio; RIFFE, Tim (2020) “The need for detailed COVID-19 data in Spain”. The Lancet Public Health, Correspondence (online: october 9, 2020), 1p.

Presentation. Cabezas, A., Alustiza-Galarza, A., Martin, U., Bacigalupe, A.:“Desigualdades de género en la medicaclización de la salud mental: panorámia europea en la población mayor de 50”. XL Reunión Anual Sociedad Española de Epidemiología. Donostia-San Sebastian, 31.08.2022.

Poster. Koerber, L., Alustiza-Galarza, A.: “The Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations data series at the Human Mortality Database”. 6th HMD Symposium. Paris, 16.06.2022. 

Presentation. Jdanov, D.A., Alustiza-Galarza, A., Shkolkikov, V.M., Jasilionis, D., Németh, L., Leon, D.A., Barbieri, M., Boe, C.: “The Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations series: A new data resource on weekly mortality”. PAA 2021 Annual Meeting. Online, 06.05.2021.

Presentation. Alustiza-Galarza, A., Németh, L.: “Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations (STMF) data series: a new data collecton of weekly mortality”. Seminar “Modern Demography”, International Laboratory for Population and Helath of the HSE University. 23.07.2020. 

Poster. Alustiza-Galarza, A.: “Human Life-table Database: Data Resource Profile”, 5th HMD Symposium. Berlin, 13.05.2019.