I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think – Socrates (470-399 BC).

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
A successful course is one where the lecturer is well prepared but also where there is time to hear and encourage
students. The teacher is a guide and students build up the course. This Socratic view of teaching has been the central
bone of my successful teaching experience.
When developing and teaching a course, I try to use all the technology available (slide presentations, computer labs,
videos, and also whiteboards) as appropriate as possible to achieve my teaching aim. I encourage group work to stimulate
collaboration as well as individual test to learn self motivation. I encourage creativity and try to invite students to use their
intuition but I remind them to be critical. In every class, as much as I can, I try to start with a question and invite students to
use their tools to answer it in the best possible way, and I usually end the class with a short summary of the studied
material.
I greatly enjoy teaching and the contact with students at all levels, with particular affinity towards highly motivated master
and doctoral students. A course is a great opportunity to interact with, and potentially influence, the future of demography.

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
The focus of my research is formal demography and I have taught courses in this area at various institutions. Every year
since 2005, I have had the pleasure to introduce the new cohorts of European demographers to formal demography
through the courses: “Basic mathematics for demographers”, and “Mathematical demography” in the European Doctoral
School of Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) as well as other locations in
Europe. At Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health I taught three courses within demography: “Fundamentals
of life tables”, “Population data for policy”, and “Methods and measures of demography". At University of Copenhagen and
now at the University of Southern Denmark I have also lectured in demographic courses as well as in biostatistics courses.

LIST OF TAUGHT COURSE

University of Southern Denmark
- 2013-2015: Course – "Evidence based and biostatistics." Co-instructor
- 2014: Course – "Population Health and Demography." Lecturer

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,

- 2009-2014: Course – “Fundamentals of Life Tables.” Instructor
- 2010-2013: Course – “Methods and Measures in Demography.” Co-instructor
- 2008-2010: Course – “Application of Population Data for Policy and Practice.” Co-instructor

Copenhagen University, Denmark,

- 2010-2012: Course – “Themes in Demography.” Instructor
- 2012: Course – “Mathematical Demography.” Instructor

European Doctoral School of Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
- 2005-2009,2015: Course –“Basic Mathematics for Demographers”. Instructor.

Colegio de Mexico, Mexico.

- 2010-2011: One week-course for the spring term on “Mathematical Demography”. Instructor.

Other Significant Teaching

European Doctoral School of Demography
- 2010-2015: One week-course on “Mathematical Demography”. Lecturer.

Erasmus Summer Programme

- 2008 -2011: Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. One week-course on “Demography
of Ageing.” Co-instructor