I am a sociologist and social demographer (PhD), currently appointed as Professor (Catedràtic laboral) in the Department of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies, where I lead the Generations and Life Course research group.
My research adopts a comparative and life-course perspective to examine population dynamics and social inequality across individual lives and generations. My work is organized around two main research areas. First, I study residential mobility and migration across the life course, with particular attention to their intersections with employment, gender relations, family dynamics, and childhood living conditions. Second, I investigate the diverse and increasingly complex trajectories of family lives, focusing on how family courses are linked to the accumulation of socio-economic (dis)advantage over time and to its intergenerational transmission from parents to children. Across these areas, I have also contributed to methodological innovation in quantitative social research, especially in the design of social surveys and the analysis of longitudinal and life-course data.
I am the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project LIFELONGMOVE (European Research Council Consolidator Grant). My research has also been supported by competitive funding from the Spanish National Research Plan, the German Research Foundation (DFG), Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), and the Volkswagen Foundation, among others.
In terms of academic service, I currently co-chair the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifetime Migration of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and serve as a council member of the European Association for Population Studies. I am also an affiliate of the Life Course Centre at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, and a BiB Fellow at the German Federal Institute for Population Research.