Prof. Dr. Roland Rau
University of Rostock
Dept. Sociology and Demography
Ulmenstr. 69
D - 18057 Rostock
Germany
E-Mail: roland.rau@uni-rostock.de
Tel.: +49 (0) 381 498 - 4044
Office Hours during the Winter Term 2026/2027: Wednesdays, 08:30-09:30
Please send me an email with your questions in advance so I can address them efficiently and satisfactorily.
You can find me in Room 146 (Haus 1, Ulmenstr. 69)
Current Courses
Winter Term 2026/2027
- Introduction to Demography (Lecture, Bachelor)
- Introduction to Mathematical Demography (Lecture & Lab, Bachelor)
- Research Lab / Forschungspraktikum ("The State of Health in the United States", Master)
Research Areas
- Demographic Forecasting
- Quantitative Methods
- Statistical and Mathematical Demography
- Mortality
- Aging
Recent Publications
- Georg Wenau, Pavel Grigoriev, Sebastian Klüsener, Roland Rau, Ena Peters, Vladimir Shkolnikov (2026): For Whom Does Place Matter? Regional Variation in the SES-Mortality Gradient Among Retired Men in Germany. Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik). DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2025-0075 Link
- Roland Rau, Carlotta Dietrich, Bernhard Köppen (2026): Heat- And Cold- Associated Mortality in Germany, 2000–2023. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International 123: 357–361 DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2026.0059 Link
- Roland Rau, Heike Trappe (2026): Visualising age-specific fertility patterns in the former GDR and in East Germany, 1956–2017. Comparative Population Studies Vol. 51: 151–156. DOI: 10.12765/CPoS-2026-07 Link
- Anna-Kathleen Piereth, Roland Rau, Marcus Ebeling (2026): Population aging and changing hospitalization risks in Germany: a decomposition of changes in inpatient cases, 2005–2021. BMC Public Health, Vol. 26:1437 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-27522-x Link
