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Sergi is a sociologist and a social demographer (PhD), currently appointed as a Professor at the Department of Sociology, and acting as a head of the Generations and Life Course research group in the Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
He has substantive expertise in several fields of demographic research –particularly family dynamics and spatial mobility– and social inequality research. His research adopts life course and cross-national approaches, and uses state-of-the-art quantitative methods for the analysis of longitudinal data.
Sergi is an ERC Grant holder, currently leading the LIFELONGMOVE project funded by the European Research Council (Consolidator Grant, 2023-2027). He is the (co-)chair of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifetime Migration of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (2023-2025). He is also a Life Course Centre affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, a BiB fellow of the German Federal Institute for Population Research, and an ICREA Acadèmia award recipient (2023-2027).
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LIFELONGMOVE: Understanding spatial mobility from early life into adulthood
Vidal Torre, S. (Principal Investigator), Cabib, I. (Collaborator), Brunori , C. (Researcher on contract), Bolano, D. (Collaborator), Valente , R. (Researcher on contract) & Lekstyte, J. (Investigator)
European Commission (EC), ERC Consolidator Grant
1/01/23 → 31/12/27
Project: International research project
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Partnership life courses and completed fertility in Spain
Vidal, S., Bolano, D. & Lozano, M., 28 Apr 2026, In: Demographic Research. 54, p. 935-972 38 p., 29.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Where to (next)? Family and childhood migration experience and migration aspirations in adulthood
Brunori, C., Caron, L. & Vidal, S., 12 Jan 2026, In: International Migration Review. p. 1-29 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Widowhood and economic well-being in China: the role of coresident children before, during and after spousal death
Chen, J., Van Winkle, Z., Vidal, S. & Spijker, J., 18 Feb 2026, In: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 81, 5, 10 p., gbag025.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Work-family trajectories and later-life health in China
Chen, J., Vidal, S. & Spijker, J., Jun 2026, In: Advances in Life Course Research. 68, p. 100740 12 p., 100740.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism
Bernard, A., McMullin, P. & Vidal, S., 21 Jul 2025, In: European Journal of Population. 41, 18.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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