Sociologist Sergi Vidal member of the board of international organisation promoting population studies

The elections to choose the members who will be managing this international organisation, the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), were held by electronic voting last May and 622 members participated. In addition to Sergi Vidal Torre, the new board will include Anna Matysiak (vice-president), Trude Lappegård (secretary general and treasurer), Raya Muttarak (member), and president Emilio Zagheni.

Sergi Vidal is lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the UAB and researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies, where he coordinates the Generations and Life Course research group. He is also an affiliate of 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.

He has expertise in various fields of demographic research (e.g., families and spatial mobility) and social inequality (such as housing and labour market outcomes). his research adopts cross-national and life course approaches, using state-of-the-art quantitative methods for longitudinal data analysis.

He has received funding from the European Research Council (Consolidator Grant, 2022-2027), the German Research Council (Sachbeihilfe, 2015-2017) and the Spanish Government (Ramon y Cajal, 2017-2022; R&D Retos de la Investigación 2019-2021; I+D+i Generación del Conocimiento, 2022-2025), as well as from other institutions, to support his research.

Organisation conducting population studies

The EAPS organises the flagship European population conference every two years and has working groups on key population issues, as well as topical networks that organise regular webinars and training workshops. It has an awards programme for outstanding achievements of members at all career stages. It promoted and gave support to the European Doctoral School of Demography, the European Journal of Population, and the European Studies of Population book series. It also created and collaborates with Population Europe, the main European network of research institutions in this field.

This organisation is an open community of researchers from many disciplines with an interest in high quality research and training in population studies, such as demography, sociology, economics, health sciences, regional studies, history, law and others.