The Scientific Council of the SCOR Foundation has decided to support and fund the “SCOR Chair on Mortality Research” for the next four years (2023-2026). The Chair will be directed by Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, assistant professor at the Interdisciplinary Center on Population Dynamics (CPop) at the University of Southern Denmark. Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher is a young researcher who has published numerous articles in various internationally renowned journals. 

Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Chair Director and Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary
Center on Population Dynamics (CPop) at the University of Southern Denmark

The purpose of the Chair is to study multimorbidity in the causes of death, to predict trends in mortality and develop demographic models of mortality, including using artificial intelligence. This study will be consider data at the international level (Denmark, Sweden, Spain, France and the United States) and within an interdisciplinary framework. 

At the same time, the Chair will organize, with SCOR, a co-supervision of doctoral students, offering the opportunity to combine academic research and practice in business. 

The project is led by Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, assistant professor at the Interdisciplinary Center on Population Dynamics (CPop) at the University of Southern Denmark, an institute formerly headed by the late SCOR Foundation board member James Vaupel. Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, who was trained by James Vaupel, has published numerous articles in various internationally renowned journals, particularly in actuarial journals such as the Astin Bulletin. She has previously worked with the SCOR Foundation on a project dedicated to mortality, the results of which were widely appreciated by experts in the field. 

This project is anticipated to last for three years (2023-2026). 

View the Chair's official page here.