Arun Balachandran is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science and the Einstein Center for Population Diversity. His work lies at the intersection of demography, epidemiology, and quantitative social science, with a focus on population aging as a life-course process. His research develops and applies novel approaches to measuring aging beyond chronological age, integrating biological, social, and cognitive dimensions. A central strand of his work uses longitudinal data to examine heterogeneity in aging trajectories and to link biological aging with healthspan, morbidity, and mortality across populations. Arun received his PhD in Demography from the University of Groningen and has prior training in economics from the Madras School of Economics. Before joining Charité, he held research positions at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (New York), the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Population Council. His work has been published in interdisciplinary journals including Nature Aging, Journal of Aging and Health, SSM – Population Health, and The Lancet. He is a recipient of the Diversity Fellow Award from the Gerontological Society of America and the K.B. Pathak Memorial Award from the Indian Association for the Study of Population.
Institution
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
