Jose David Lopez Blanco

Research Interests

Migration and labor market integration; Spatial and social mobility; Gender and education; Fertility and family structures; Social mobility and outcomes in later life stages.

Academic Positions

• University of Bologna, Italy – Research Fellow (2024–present)

• Pompeu Fabra University, Spain – Research Assistant (2024)

• Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain – Pre-doctoral Researcher (2020–2024)

• GGS Fellowship Programme, UNFPA and Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (Moldova) – International Expert Consultant (2022)

• Universidad Europea, Madrid, Spain – External Member of MA Thesis Committee (2023)

Education

• PhD in Social Sciences (International Mention) – Carlos III University of Madrid (2020–2024)

  • Supervisor: Rickard Sandell

  • Committee: Ettore Recchi (Sciences Po), Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Carolina V. Zuccotti (Carlos III University of Madrid)

  • Grade: Summa cum laude

• Master's in Sociology and Demography Research – Pompeu Fabra University, Spain (2017–2018)

• Law Degree – University of Zaragoza, Spain (2011–2017)

• Bachelor's in Business Administration and Economics – University of Zaragoza, Spain (2011–2017)

Research Stays

• Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Germany – Research Unit: Migration, Integration and Transnationalism (Fall 2023)

Additional Training

• TN SQUARE Winter School, University of Trento

  • Social Policies: Meanings, Measures and Effects on Individuals’ Behaviour (2024)

  • Technological Change, Inequality and Social Stratification (2022)

• Methodological Seminars and Workshops (Carlos III University of Madrid, 2020–2023)

  • Social Network Analysis, Behavioral and Experimental Social Sciences, Conjoint Analysis, Difference-in-Difference, Qualitative Methods, Structural Equation Models, Spatial Econometrics.

Participation in Funded Research Projects

• ICTAGE. Social stratification and ICT utilization in later life (2024–2025) – Next Generation EU, PNRR – P.I.: Marco Albertini

• Gender and Social-Origin Determinants of Early Labour Market Performance in Hard Times (2024) – Spanish Agency for Research – P.I.: Luis Ortíz Gervasi

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• From Students to Movers: Linking Internal and International Migration Trajectories among Spanish Bachelor’s and Advanced Vocational Training Graduates. Population, Space and Place, 31 (5), e70050, DOI: 10.1002/psp.70050

• Return to the South: Economic (Re)integration of Return Migrants, Internal Migrants, and Non-Migrants in Post-Recession Spain of the 2010s. European Societies, 1–46, doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/euso_a_00039

• Do languages open doors? A Theoretical Model of Linguistic Capital and (Im)Mobility and its Application in Spanish Youth Migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(3), 565–582 (2025).

• Biopower and Sexual Rights. LSJ Working Papers, no. 2, 1–42 (2017).

Teaching Experience

• Carlos III University of Madrid (2020–2022)

  • Multidisciplinary Seminar in International Studies (Quantitative Methods and Research Design)

  • Comparative Sociology (Lectures and seminars)

  • Emerging Countries (Lectures and seminars)

• Award for Teaching Excellence (2021/2022) – Carlos III University of Madrid

Academic Service

• Reviewer for European Sociological Review, Acta Sociologica.

Language and IT Skills

• Languages: Spanish (native), English (advanced)

• Software: STATA (advanced), R (intermediate), LaTeX (advanced), Atlas.ti (intermediate)