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Marta Seiz

Marta Seiz (PhD in Political and Social Sciences; Universitat Pompeu Fabra) is an Assistant Professor at UNED specialized in social demography. She has previously worked at the Spanish National Research Council, the Demosoc Unit at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Göteborg. Her research lies at the intersection of sociodemography, sociology of the family, and social stratification, while applying a gender perspective. She has participated in several research projects in the fields of family, fertility, and social inequalities in perinatal health/child development. Her research has been published in journals such as Fertillity and Sterility, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Family Research, Feminist Economics, European Sociological Review, or Demographic Research.

Leire Salazar

Leire Salazar is a Senior Researcher (Investigadora Científica) at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies, Spanish Research Council (IPP-CSIC). Before joining CSIC, she was an Associate Professor at UNED and the Lead Scientist of DIGCLASS, at the JRC, European Commission. She has published research on educational inequalities, perinatal health inequalities and income and wealth inequalities in journals such as European Sociological Review, Socio-Economic Review, Sociological Science, European Journal of Population, American Journal of Sociology or Social Science & Medicine.

Xiana Bueno

Dr. Xiana Bueno is a sociologist and family demographer and has conducted her research at the School of Public Health at Indiana University since 2021. She has previously done research at Harvard University and the Center for Demographic Studies in Barcelona. Dr. Bueno’s research focuses on abortion attitudes, family demography, and international migration. Her most recent research centers on developing measures to better assess attitudes toward abortion. She also studies how gender inequality, labor-market conditions, and family policies affect fertility decisions.

Ryohei Mogi

Ryohei Mogi is a Juan de la Cierva Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). He is a demographer and seeks to understand the fertility decline and family changes by developing alternative measures and analysing the key factors of such decline and changes and its consequences. He particularly focuses on childlessness, mate search, and partnership formation. He received his PhD in Demography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Centre for Demographic Studies in 2020 and European Research Certificate in Demography from the European Doctoral School of Demography at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and La Sapienza University of Rome.

Marco Cozzani

Marco Cozzani is an Assistant Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. Before this position, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bologna, working on the ERC project GENPOP. He also held a post-doctoral research position at the European University Institute, where he completed his PhD. His research interests include population and children's health, fertility, social stratification, child development, parental responses, fetal origins, quantitative methods, and causal inference .

Evgeniya Borisova

Born in Moscow, Russia, Evgeniya Borisova graduated from Moscow's State University of Management, specializing in bank management. After several years working as financial analyst, she moved to Barcelona to study a Master of Science in Population and Territorial Studies coordinated by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona's Geography Department and Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics. In 2021 she worked as research assistant at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In October 2023 she finished her PhD in Demography (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Her research is focused on fertility and reproductive health and looks into IVF development in relation to low fertility and fertility postponement in Spain.

Nerea Bello

Nerea has a degree in Pharmacy from the University of Santiago de Compostela, with a Master's Degree in Research and Advances in Cellular and Molecular Immunology from the University of Granada. She is currently a predoctoral researcher in the PERIFACT project, where she investigates the impact of environmental pollution on perinatal health, with a focus on social stratification dynamics. At the moment, she is developing her thesis in the Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences and Public Health offered jointly by the UNED and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III through the IMIENS (Instituto Mixto de Investigación – Escuela Nacional de Sanidad).

Michael B. Lund

Michael Borchgrevink Lund is an FNS Senior Researcher at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES (University of Lausanne) and a predoctoral student at University Carlos III (UC3M). His research focuses on the intersection of social demography, stratification, and health inequalities, employing life course approaches. In his doctoral thesis, he investigates how family dynamics and social capital influence health throughout the life course in the historical United States, utilizing innovative data and methodologies. As a contributor to the ECHO project at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), he has explored the evolving role of grandmothers in family structures and participated in studies on smoking and obesity, enhancing his expertise in multigenerational influences on health outcomes.

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