Joan García Román

Biography

Joan Román García is PhD in Demography from the University of Barcelona and researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies, currently as Juan de la Cierva fellow. His research career has been linked to CED where he participated in projects funded by different institutions and organisms as national and international. He has been student of the European Doctoral School of Demography (2008-2009) under which took research stays at INED in Paris and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. Between July 2013 and November 2016, he worked as a research associate at the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota in the IPUMS Time Use project. Use IPUMS Time is a collaborative project between the University of Maryland, the Center for Time Use Research at the University of Oxford and the MPC dedicated to harmonizing historical and contemporary data on time use. He has worked in a wide range of topics in the field of demography and has specialized in the analysis of time use data. Although his doctorate is relatively recent his research has been published in the most important journals in the field of demography such as Demography, Population and Development Review, Demographic Research or Population, Space and Place.

Research Interest

Union formation, families and households, Social stratification, Time use