Vice-rector for Students and Alumni
- Vice-rector for Students and Alumni: Aïda Solé Auró
Postal address
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Edifici Mercè
Carrer de la Mercè 12
08002 Barcelona
Contact
Telèfon: 93 542 20 00
[email protected]
Functions
The vice-rector for Students and Alumni coordinates and oversees, under the guidance of the rector, the following matters:
- Policies related to the student body
- The promotion and monitoring of participation by student groups and associations in University life, including sports activities
- Liaising with the UPF Student Council, student representatives in the governing bodies, delegates and, in general, student representatives as a whole
- The coordination of calls for scholarships and grants intended to encourage student participation, including their resolution
- Policy and projects for the support and participation of alumni
- Promotion and supervision of the Chapters Alumni UPF initiative
Curricula
Aïda Solé Auró is an associate lecturer and a researcher with the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). Since 2014, she has been a member of the Sociodemography Research Group (DemoSoc) of the same Department, which she has coordinated for eight years. After defending her doctoral thesis at the University of Barcelona (2009), she did a postdoctoral degree at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) until 2012, when she left for Paris, where she did a second post-doctorate at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (Ined) (2013-2014).
Her scientific career has mainly focused on investigating life expectancy and health inequalities in different population groups as they age, as well as the relationship between demographic dynamics and individual well-being.
Currently, her lines of research consist of analysing the health trajectories of individuals from different socio-demographic groups to measure the evolution of true comorbidity patterns, examining the healthy immigrant paradox, and studying the evolution of gender inequalities in active ageing. In addition, she is a member of several competitive projects, which she coordinates, which aim to understand how social, economic, demographic or cultural context influences differences in the health and longevity of a population.
Some of her research has been published in prestigious journals in the field of demography, population, public health, and ageing. Since joining UPF, she has served in various institutional positions, first as vice-dean of the Department (2015-2017), then as Department deputy director (2017-2024), and now as vice-rector for Students and Alumni (2024-).