Mariona Lozano is a sociologist, with post-doctoral training in social demography. She
received her Ph.D. from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2014, and later proceed
her postdoctoral studies at McGill University (Canada) and the University of Edinburgh
(UK). She is currently a Ramón-y-Cajal fellow at the Centre for Demographic Studies
(CED), where she leads the Gender and Inequality group. She has two main lines of research.
First, she explores individuals’ access to job quality and the rise of precarious working
conditions in peoples’ lives, with a major focus on gender. Second, her research is also
focused on the association between working trajectories and fertility outcomes. More
specifically, she studies the consequences of temporary work and job instability on fertility
decisions and family dynamics at the micro-level.
She was the Dean of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) between 2019
and 2023, and assistant editor at the European Journal of Population between 2018 and 2020.