 It is one of approximately 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society.The MPIDR is jointly led by Emilio Zagheni, who took over from MPIDR founding director James Vaupel in February 2018, and Mikko Myrskylä, who in 2014 followed Joshua R. Goldstein who had in 2007 taken the post of retired Jan Hoem .After the Institut national d'études démographiques, the MPIDR is the largest demographic research body in Europe and one of the largest in the world.