Dr. Sergey Timonin is a Research Fellow at the ANU School of Demography and the Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice. Prior to joining the ANU, Sergey worked at the Higher School of Economics (University) in Moscow, Russia, and was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany.

Sergey holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in geography from Moscow State University. His research focuses on population health and mortality, including spatial and socioeconomic inequalities between and within countries, causes of death, and environmental epidemiology (in particular, the impact of ambient temperature on mortality). His previous work has contributed to the development of methodologies for assessing and understanding spatial patterns of health and inequalities at different geographical scales. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sergey contributed to estimating the impact of the pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy losses in different settings. At the ANU Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice, Sergey is now involved in a project to examine trends and risk/protective factors for death by suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people using nationally linked data.