Clara Cortina

I am Associate professor at the Department of Political and Social Science at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and member of the SocioDemographics Research Group (DemoSoc). I currently serve as Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, a Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (CEX2025-001632-M).

I obtained my PhD in Demography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2007, where I previously gained a B.A. in Political Science and Administration (2002). I was post-doc researcher at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and visiting researcher at the French Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institut (NIDI).

As an interdisciplinary and quantitative social scientist my research interests focus on current changes in partnership and family dynamics. In the past I have participated in several national and international research projects related to the analysis of the implications of family change in multiple domains: demographic trends, social inequality and gender relations. I currently lead, together with Alessandro di Nallo, a research project funded by MICINN (PID2025-169529NB-I00) focused on the analysis of reproductive trajectories, their determinants, and their implications (REPRODIV). I have also studied gender discrimination in the labor market using experimental techniques (audit and vignette studies).