Vinod Joseph is a PhD student at the Department of Statistics, University of Bologna and the Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Germany. His research focuses on assessing the impact of climate change on demographic behaviour. He is also a Fellow at the Lancet Citizens Commission on Reimagining India Health System. Prior to joining Unibo, Vinod was a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. He holds a Master and MPhil in Biostatistics and Demography from IIPS and Bachelor in Computer Applications from Sacred Heart College, Kochi. Vinod research interests lie in the areas of population and environment, formal demography, survey research and population ageing.

Vinod has joined POPCLIMA from November 2022.