GARCIA GONZALEZ, JUAN MANUEL

Bs in Sociology and Statistics by the University of Salamanca, and PhD in Sociology by UNED. Since 2015, I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla. I have previously worked as a researcher and lecturer at University of Castilla-La Mancha, UNED, International University of La Rioja, and Instituto de Salud Carlos III. I have two certified six-year research periods (sexenios) by CNEAI. I am co-editor of Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales.

My main research line is in demography, specifically about mortality, longevity, centenarians, aging, and health. I put great interest in the study of the causes of death, especially those that could generate gender inequalities or that are a consequence of social inequalities. Currently, I am working very hard on loneliness and social isolation.

As an intellectual perversion, I am also interested in the sociology of death and the visual expression of stigmatized or invisible social processes. I fervently believe that transdisciplinary research with doctors, epidemiologists, geographers, mathematicians, statisticians, and psychologists is essential, which is why the field of collaborations is always open to me.

I am the principal investigator of the PAIDI Research Group "Demography and Social Research in Health" (SEJ-654). I am in the Management Committee of the COST Action European Burden of Disease Network. I have also been doing short stays in Peking University, University of California, Berkeley (x2), Institut National d’Études Démographiques, German Centre of Gerontology (x2), Universidad de Salamanca, and Universidad de Málaga.

In the teaching field -one of the activities that give me the greatest satisfaction-, I mainly dedicate to teaching quantitative techniques of social research -with special attention to data analysis- and demographic analysis. I have a great desire to motivate the students, so that these methodological subjects –which sometimes back off a bit– are as attractive as possible so that the students can see the beauty and wonder of statistical and demographic analysis in social sciences.