Diego Ramiro-Fariñas

Full Professor, Director

Dr. Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Full Professor of Demography and Director of the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography. He was Marie Curie Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge (UK) from 1998 to 2000. From 2001 till 2017, Tenured Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council. From 2002-2013, Head of the Department of Demography and from 2013-2019 Head of the Department of Population Studies. From 2010-2012 and 2019-2020, Vice-Director at the Center for Human and Social Sciences, a large (>600 employees) Research Facility. From 2011-2017, elected President of the Iberian Association of Historical Demography . From 2011, Member of the International Advisory Board of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands. From 2012, Member of the Council of Advisors of Population Europe, the Network of Leading’s Demographic Research Centers in Europe. From 2011-2014 Member and, from 2014-2017, Chair of the Historical Demography Panel at IUSSP. From 2015, Secretary General and Treasurer of the European Society of Historical Demography, member of the Advisory Board of the LatinAmerican Mortality Database University of Wisconsin-Madison and member of the Editorial Board at Peter Lang Editors, Population, Family and Society series. From 2016, member of the Editorial Board at Demography and from 2018, member of the Editorial Board of Spatial Demography. From 2017-2022, Member of the Digital Demography panel at IUSSP. From 2022, Member of the Historical Demography Panel at IUSSP. From 2019-2022, Council Member of the US Social Science History Association. He was PI and Coordinator of the ITN Marie Curie H2020 LONGPOP project 2016-2020, PI of the H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 Project SEU-FER 2018-2020 and Team Member of the H2020 ERC Advanced Grant ECHO, 2019-2025. From 2017, Research Scientist at CSIC, Director of the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography from February 2019 and President of the European Society of Historical Demography from 2020-2022. From 2019, coordinator of the Demographic Challenges Network funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. From March 2020 till today member of the CSIC COVID-19 Commission and member of CSIC PTI+ Global Health, Neuroaging Digital Science and Mobility. Since 2021, coordinator of the Laboratory of Aging and Experimental Statistics (https://envejecimientoenred.csic.es). Since 2022, elected member of the Free Emeritus College of Spain (https://colegiodeemeritos.es/) and member of the ICTS Commission at CSIC. Since 2023, elected member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en. Since 2024, Since 2024, Coordinator of the Global Health PTI+ Platform at CSIC. Member of the Statistical Commissions of Andalusia and the Canary Islands and since 2025, Chair of the Technical Committee for the Analysis of Sociodemographic Statistics (CTSD) of the Higher Council of Statistics of the INE. He has directed 10 doctoral theses, 9 cum laude, 7 with option to extraordinary Award and 3 Extraordinary Awards of the UCM. Director of 6 international fellowships. Marie Curie IF (2018-2020), Leonardo Da Vinci, Fulbright US Senior Researcher, Master and Back, In-Time 36 (2) and on average each year tutors 2 Erasmus mundus. He has been principal investigator or part of the research team of more than 70 R&D projects both national and international, is director of the graduate course and lecture series Demography Today of the FBBVA and evaluator of several national and international journals and institutions. His main lines of research and publications are related to the study of mortality, demographic analysis, spatial demography and the development of longitudinal studies and the use of BigData.