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 MSc and PhD in human geography from Moscow State University. His research interests include population health and mortality, i.e. spatial and socioeconomic inequalities in health and access to healthcare, cause-of-death analysis, and associations between ambient temperature and mortality across different locations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sergey contributed to estimating the impact of the pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy losses in different settings. His work at the ANU School of Demography focuses on a comprehensive assessment of longevity trends within Australia and in an international perspective. At the ANU Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice, Sergey examines patterns and risk/protective factors for death by suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people using nationally linked data.